Real Security

Prisoners of War

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics


Robert L. Borosage

The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression has sparked a great reckoning. Obama now argues that it represents a "failed philosophy." Yet, the Iraq War, surely the worst foreign policy debacle at least since Vietnam, has had little effect in challenging the "failed philosophy" that an imperial America is the "indispensable nation" needed to police the globe.