Obama Is A Peacemaker
Many who had voted for him believed he had let them down, that he was spineless. That kind of talk has stopped, at least for the moment.
Many who had voted for him believed he had let them down, that he was spineless. That kind of talk has stopped, at least for the moment.
HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 06.20.2011
WASHINGTON -- After 26 months in office, President Obama still has not forged a smoothly working national security team that can both nimbly pounce o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- It's not quite at a tipping point, but two years after President Barack Obama announced that he was putting 17,000 more troops into Afgh...
David Swanson | Posted 05.25.2011
Assuming a Libertarian influence does not sweep through the Republican caucus and the Democrats don't regress in their path toward peacemaking, we are likely to see wars that will be considered as Republican-Obama in nature.
Posted 05.25.2011
Bob Woodward discussed his hotly anticipated new book, "Obama's Wars," with Diane Sawyer on ABC's "World News" last night. "You do have a heart-poun...
Posted 05.25.2011
Journalist and author Bob Woodward's hotly anticipated new book "Obama's Wars," scheduled for release on Sept. 27, has been making waves on the Intern...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Back in early 2007, when the Bush administration was insisting that its military intervention in a faraway land was not open-ended, Senator Barack Oba...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011
Ultimately, there is no way to square Obama's role as a war-maker with the teachings of Jesus, who preached against the use of violence. One can only imagine that Jesus would be horrified.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
With the war on Afghanistan thrust momentarily back into the political spotlight, a host of anti-war Democratic lawmakers are expressing their frustra...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Members of Congress with any inclination to balk at President Obama's massive emergency war-funding request have found their case strengthened by two ...
Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011
In a wide-ranging interview with Al Jazeera's Abderrahim Foukara, Gates spoke about the US strategy for peace in Afghanistan facing a "war of necessit...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was "extremely gratified" with Barack Obama's speech and approach to the war in Afghanistan, the president's chief diplo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, the Democratic National Committee blasted out to reporters a memo of selected quotes designed to show the John McCain not only making unrea...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011
Even the most cursory look at Obama's words, votes, and campaign pirouettes on Iraq paint a far different picture of a candidate for which Iraq was never the clear cut issue that many believed.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Hillary Clinton has every right to continue fighting for the Democratic nomination, says former Sen. Bob Graham, but it is time to put down her g...
Robert Weller | Posted 12.22.2011