Obama War in Iraq

Barack Gorbachev: Adjusting To The Global Reality

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 08.27.2011

Leon T. Hadar

Like Gorbachev, Obama and much of the foreign policy establishment in Washington seem to cling to the fantasy that the U.S. can muddle through towards victory in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: This Way to the Egress

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Brenner

The Obama people's muscular policies are cast in the certainties and self-righteousness that have become the theme music to all we do. The volume grows in proportion to the decline in our ability to accomplish anything of value in the world. Whistling past the graveyard of our failures, we obsessively return to the tunes we sang with lusty, and more innocent, self-confidence as a younger nation. Our foreign policy elite have not the mind, the mentality nor the skills to imagine it otherwise. The irony of our deeply-troubled, financially-strapped nation presuming to arrange the affairs of everybody else on the planet escapes them.

Long War Needs Long Peace Movement

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Hayden

The Long War will fail because the US is overextended militarily and economically, and the world is more multi-polar than uni-polar. The world does not share the US Long War agenda.

The U.S. Attack on Syria: Implications for the Next Administration

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011

Stephen Zunes

Obama's refusal to criticize the U.S. attack on Syria raises the prospect that rather than pursue the diplomatic route, he will instead "pick up where the Bush Administration has now ended."