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Sunil Adam: New Heart for Old Dick

2012-03-28T16:41:19Z

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Read more: Politics, Bush Administration, Heart Transplant, Conservatives, Editorial Cartoons, Gop, Neoconservatives, Wyoming, Tea Party, Comedy, Dick Cheney, Republicans, Politics News

Olga Bonfiglio: Republican Presidential Win Would Give Free Rein To Neocon Ambitions of Empire

2012-03-26T21:36:55Z

Dorrien supports the re-election of Obama because he doesn't want the neoconservatives to return to power as indeed they will under Romney or Santorum.

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Rajan Menon: Six Questions for Advocates of Arming Syria's Opposition

2012-02-22T16:20:36Z

After the campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, there's no excuse for not thinking hard about unforeseen developments and about whether there exists the requisite will to deal with them if they materialize.

Read more: R2p, Liberals, Homs, United Nations, Humanitarian Intervention, Syria Uprisings, Arab League, Neoconservatives, Syria Violence, Bashar Al-Assad, Barack Obama Foreign Policy, Syria, Foreign Policy, World News

Leon T. Hadar: The Reality of American Power: Why Robert Kagan Is Wrong

2012-02-22T12:40:48Z

'You are not sick' is the kind of reassuring message that Robert Kagan is sending to the nation's foreign policy hypochondriacs aka 'declinists' in his new book, contending that America is in tip-top military and economic health and ready to take care of the rest of the world.

Read more: Syria, Iran, George W. Bush, Russia, Neoconservatives, Obama, Iraq, Fareed Zakaria, China, Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World News

Joel Rubin: Israel's '74 Pact With Syria Shows We Can Deal With Iran

2012-01-20T15:29:17Z

If the Israelis could cut a deal in 1974 with a country like Syria, certainly the international community and the U.S. could seek to do the same today with a country like Iran.

Read more: Iraq War, Syria, Yom Kippur, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Neoconservatives, Israel, Obama, Diplomacy, Newt Gingrich, World News

Leon T. Hadar: Impressive Show for Anti-War Republicans: Is Neoconservatism Now Outside Republican Mainstream?

2012-01-11T18:03:52Z

When it comes to foreign policy, it is former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman and this year's Republican presidential candidate who sounds today like candidate Obama did in 2008.

Read more: Bill Clinton, Iran, Ron Paul, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Neoconservatives, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, George W. H. Bush, Barack Obama, Politics News

MJ Rosenberg: The Neocons Capture Romney

2012-01-05T17:37:00Z

It is like a terrible joke. The people who helped inflict one of the worst disasters in U.S. history on the American people are back to do it again. And the leading GOP contender for the presidency is following their lead.

Read more: Elections 2012, Neoconservatives, Iran, Israel, Romney Iran, Mitt Romney Iowa Caucus, Romney Iowa Speech, Mitt Romney Iran, Romeny Iran, Politics News

Joel Rubin: Obama's Smart Red Lines on Iran

2011-12-25T13:30:12Z

Instead of political pandering and promoting a reckless policy, Obama is making it clear that while he seeks to resolve the challenge from Iran, he also has policy red lines that should not be crossed.

Read more: Treasury Department, White House, Jeffrey Goldberg, Nuclear Weapons, War, Mitt Romney, Neoconservatives, Timothy Geithner, Iran, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics News

David Paul: Iraq, Free Trade and America's Efforts to Remake the World

2011-12-18T17:55:57Z

If our experiment in spreading democratic freedom across the Muslim world seems like it may have rough moments, we need only look back at our now-decades old experiment in spreading economic freedom, known as free trade.

Read more: John F. Kennedy, Iraq War, Wmd, Arab Spring, Eqypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Nixon, Russia, Donald Rumsfeld, Libya, Free Trade, Neoconservatives, Democracy, China, Dick Cheney, World News

MJ Rosenberg: The "Pro-Israel" Right Loses It

2011-12-16T14:20:00Z

If Tom Friedman is an anti-Semite, there is no such thing; the charge has simply lost its meaning. I don't think Tom would object if I said that not only does he not hate Israel, he loves Israel and makes no effort to hide it.

Read more: Neoconservatives, Israel, Aipac, Anti-Semitism, Commentary Magazine, Thomas Friedman New York Times, Thomas Friedman Israel, Media News

Joe Cirincione: A War We Never Should Have Waged

2011-12-15T12:27:14Z

The Iraq War is the greatest strategic blunder in American history. It cost our nation $1 trillion, the lives of thousands of our finest warriors, an...

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Doug Bandow: U.S. Should Leave Iraq -- for Good

2011-12-09T10:14:33Z

Despite the Obama administration's best efforts, U.S. troops are on their way home from Iraq. Only Iraqi opposition prevented American forces from garrisoning yet another nation forever. It is time to leave. Finally. Completely. Permanently.

Read more: Neoconservatives, Iran, Saddam Hussein, Middle East, George W. Bush, Iraq, Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, World News

Neoconservatism Isn't Dead -- In Fact, It's Prepping For A Comeback

2011-11-28T13:14:00Z

The Republican Party is divided like never before on the issue of U.S. foreign policy, with rifts over foreign engagement, Pentagon budgeting and the ...

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James Zogby: Without Accountability, No Lessons Learned

2011-11-26T10:37:59Z

With the date for U.S. forces to be fully withdrawn from Iraq fast approaching, it is important to remind ourselves how we got into that long and deadly war in the first place, and to hold accountable those who are responsible.

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Neocons Say 'Red Line' Crossed After Iran Terror Plot: 'We've Got To Put Out Hands Around Their Throat Now'

2011-10-26T11:09:10Z

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans gave the stage Wednesday to hardliners who called for everything from cyber attacks to political assassinations in res...

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Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Hints At Renewal of Bush Doctrines

2011-10-07T15:25:42Z

WASHINGTON -- Slamming President Obama for three years worth of "feckless policies," Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Friday morning lai...

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Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy: George W. Bush Redux?

2011-10-07T08:30:00Z

Mitt Romney is due to deliver his first major speech of the GOP primary on foreign policy on Friday morning, from the Citadel military academy in Char...

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Cliff Schecter: No Longer a Rock Party

2011-10-03T16:13:23Z

To fully comprehend the sad spectacle that has become American politics since the 1980s, you need not peruse the politics section of major periodicals. Or the opinion, news or business pages of illustrious publications.

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Nathan Gonzalez: U.S. Strategy After 9/11: Ruminations on a Lost Decade

2011-09-14T09:44:17Z

September 11 removed us further from our liberal traditions, which had once considered undue government surveillance as a violation of civil liberties, while a previously unimaginable concept like torture suddenly became a topic worthy of "debate."

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Leon T. Hadar: The War on Terror Is Over and China Won

2011-09-08T15:49:55Z

Imagine 40 years from now how a global affairs columnist for the Fox-Xinhua (or New Shanghai Times) content-providing service will analyze the world's...

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Mark Juergensmeyer: What We Have Learned Since 9/12

2011-09-07T03:11:12Z

This war need not have happened. The small jihadi network identified with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda could have been targeted and brought to justice in a more simple and direct way.

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Joe Cirincione: Libyan Victory Validates Obama Doctrine

2011-08-24T13:31:02Z

The collapse of the Gaddafi regime firmly establishes the benefits of Obama's national security strategy over the failed war policies that preceded him -- and are still promoted by his critics.

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Dylan Brody: How To Combat The Neo-Christian Movement

2011-08-23T15:18:49Z

The neo-Christian agenda seeks to take this country in a horrific direction. Casually throwing around the expression "Christian Nation" feels to them like an affirmation of their commitment to the Constitution.

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Joel Rubin: Obama's Libya Leadership Vindicated

2011-08-22T16:30:03Z

It's time for Obama's neoconservative critics to acknowledge his leadership success on foreign policy, especially on Libya. Why? Because Obama has done what his most ardent foreign policy critics have failed to do: he has ushered in a new era in the Arab world.

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Leon T. Hadar: Netanyahu's Misguided Republican Strategy

2011-07-05T18:35:03Z

Netanyahu, who has all but signed in as a political advisor for the 2012 Republican election campaign, is operating under the assumption that if Barack Obama is ousted from the White House next year he would be replaced by a clone of George W. Bush.

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