Barack Obama promised throughout his presidential campaign to reengage with the United Nations. And he has. He's compiled an extraordinary list of accomplishments already at the UN building. Let's begin with his decision to appoint a new ambassador, Susan Rice, who actually believes in the UN and has made her...

One of the missing elements in the ongoing drama over Obama's policy review in Afghanistan is the role of the United Nations. The UN, lest we forget, has played a central role in Afghanistan since September 11, 2001. After all, on September 12, 2001, the UN Security Council authorized American...

My doubts about the US mission in Afghanistan, like those of many other Americans, have grown substantially over the past several years. While I think America was justified in toppling the Taliban government in 2001 for harboring the Al Qaeda criminals who killed 3000 US citizens and foreigners through their...

Last year a, young author named Gordon Goldstein wrote a book entitled Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam outlining the numerous missteps taken by successive US governments that eventually led to America's getting stuck in the morass of Vietnam. It is a chilling study...

President Obama gave a speech last week in Moscow that conjures up memories of our greatest foreign policy presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and John Kennedy. Two lines from Obama's address directly echo the themes and concerns of these three 20th century Democratic leaders.

First Obama stated: "Any...

Barack Obama has quite a presidential legacy to deal with as he plots his course in Latin America. His first test is the coup in Honduras and he has passed it well, so far. Obama has rightly denounced the ouster of the democratically elected leader and is now seeking the...

Days after Sri Lanka's government defeated its long-time foe, the Tamil Tigers, in May, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew into the country's capital, Colombo, for a 24-hour visit to urge its president to open up its refugee camps to international aid groups. This was another urgent trip by Ban...

President Obama has dramatically re-established American relations with the UN in his first 100 days. His acclaimed multilateral outlook on international relations, his willingness to listen to foreign leaders rather than lecture them, his admission of "mistakes" by the US on issues like torture, the economy, the Iraq war, and...

President Obama is facing multiple crises in Latin America. But for the most part they are not very noticeable to the American public. That region was, as most observers agree, notoriously neglected during the eight years of the Bush presidency. And it was not a topic of...

I have just returned from a eight day visit to Turkey last week and I can confirm that, for anyone who may still question it, Barack Obama, as is true in probably most countries around the world, is now considered in Turkey to be the virtual "president" of our planet....

President Obama has just won a major victory to help solve America's financial mess -- the passage of the stimulus bill.

While the president is properly preoccupied these days by domestic matters, I hope that he may soon give some more direct attention to foreign affairs -- and I...

As President Obama has just announced that he will close the Guantanamo Prison within a year, outlaw torture, end the flawed trials of the Al Qaeda suspects, and review the entire conduct of his predecessor's "war on terror," already one-time members of the Bush administration are complaining that Obama is...

There were heartening echoes of the words and thoughts of several of our most distinguished presidents in President Obama's Inaugural address today. One I found most interesting was Obama's reference to "earlier generations" of Americans who faced down fascism and communism "not just with missiles and tanks, but with...

The silent man of Democratic foreign policy in recent months has been Richard Holbrooke. But today President-elect Obama named Hobrooke as one of his top foreign policy advisors. An iconic figure for the past several decades in America's global policies, while he has not been heard from very much at...

I am still mulling over George W. Bush's phone call to Barack Obama after his election when Bush suggested to the president-elect that he have "fun' and enjoy himself now that he's the new chief executive.

Why would he chose the word "fun"? Indeed, what person, much less a...

John McCain was John McCain last night -- which is to say that he is, as always, a pedestrian speaker with a twitchy and often weird smile who delivered his bromides as if he were one of the nation's great orators. What was most peculiar was his shtick of criticizing...

What struck me most forcefully about Barack Obama last night was that, especially for a first time audience, he established himself as presidential -- exactly what one should do in an acceptance speech. He conveyed a sense of enormous strength and purpose, an individual who knows exactly what he wants...

One of the most talked about concepts for the American foreign policy community lately is the notion that the United States should organize a concert of democracies or "League of Democracies" to help reorder the world. This idea has been put forth both by Democrats, including such figures as...

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to the Pennsylvania Primary

Here we go again. Stomp on Hillary for winning.

Last night Hillary Clinton picked up the sixth big state out of the seven the Democrats need to win the fall presidential contest. Obama has only...

It has come to this -- even the acidic Maureen Dowd is showing a sneaking admiration for Hillary Clinton. In a column in Wednesday's New York Times, Dowd recognizes for the first time the tenacity and indominability of Hillary Clinton in this year's presidential race. Calling her a "scrappy...