Two of my wife's constituents had been holed up in their hotel room at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. They had been there for over a day avoiding the terrorist gunmen that still stalked its corridors.
This year the fear and bigotry that animated Proposition 8 in California has made this a strange Thanksgiving.
As long as Indian troops are patrolling lands where Muslim insurgents exist and elicit government responses that ostracize the Muslim public and moderates, there will continue to be attacks on Indian soil. Period.
On many of the major foreign policy issues of the day, Sen. Clinton is, in effect, asking us to take on faith that she has the right policy approaches because, as she asserts, she has the experience to lead.
We must acknowledge that when Obama takes the oath of office on January 20th, he is likely to find a rather unappetizing situation laid out before him in the Middle East.
Myy question is: what would Obama's favorite thinker Reinhold Nieubuhr, do about the ongoing nightmare of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Potential Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Is it a masterstroke by President-elect Obama? A mousetrap for the Clintons? Is it even happening at all?
As the one arrow left in McCain's quiver -- other than appealing to racists -- national security becomes the likeliest playing field for an October Surprise.
Obama is the American President, but he is, in many respects, also the world's President. What he does will matter to young and old across the globe. The world, like America, is waiting for him to lead.
It is difficult to think of any single act that would do more to restore America's soft power than the election of Obama to the presidency.
Sarah Palin may not have known what the Bush Doctrine was, but we're getting a pretty good idea of what the Palin Doctrine is. And what is it going to look like? Let's just say, it's going to seem familiar.
For both Clinton and Obama, it's not only service in the U.S. Senate that matters. It is their other professional and life experience as well.
The pieces of the national security puzzle are fitting slowly into place -- I'm getting more confident about our foreign policy by the day.
When the Bush administration -- yeah, they're still in office, and they like it when we're not paying attention -- first trotted out its marketing cam...
"I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more Commander-in-Chief-like. Ironically, this is an area--foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more."
In 1985, McCain traveled to Chile for a friendly meeting with the country's military ruler, one of the world's most notorious violators of human rights credited with killing more than 3,000 civilians and jailing tens of thousands of others.
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i was against the iraq invasion, the terrorists were in afghanistan... they are now in pakistan, and the ISI is mixed up in a lot of it... i think we all need to be more hawkish on pakistan... O needs to promote multilateralism, but needs to spotlight pakistan as a state that has terrorist training within its borders... in sum, O needs to toughen up the nerve of pakistan people and their government, and start isolating the rogue elements of the ISI...
Beehner you are not a very intelligent person - why would President-Elect Obama give the news media any specific information on national security? Why would the USA play into the enemy's hand by informing them of our plans. At least give him an opportunity to serve before you begin to criticize - one thing is for sure President-Elect Obama cannot be any worse than the oher 43 presidents this country has had.
He is not the President yet and as he stated we only have one President at a time. Let him at least take the oath of office before you tear him apart.
Like so many others here, I am really distressed by the vagueness of your point - can we PLEASE give the man a chance to become president before you start trashing what he hasn't done yet? I really recommend you read the Audacity of Hope - it is full of real-world ideas and a completely new and refreshing philosophy of how to govern a nation as diverse as ours, and get us back to being a world leader that is respected. Hillary is an excellent choice and the fact he has a few republicans in place is great, he wants as many people to give him insights and views - no longer are we being ruled by a cowboy with a one track mind. I for one am really optimistic that we in fact are at the dawn of a new day. I am sure you can go find something real to criticize somewhere!
Had I read this without knowing who wrote it, I would have thought it was a far right Republican. Scary.
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