Leon Panetta, the new Pentagon chief, got through his confirmation hearings the newfangled way: by revealing as little as possible about what he’d do in office. He tipped his hand a bit more last week by calling “completely unacceptable” the across-theboard military cuts planned in the event the next debt deal fails.
Hard-right commentator Debbie Schlussel claimed Norway’s “HAMAS Youth” got what was coming to them.
When you destroy someone’s property, you usually have to pay compensation. The United States is responsible for much of the destruction that has taken place in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. But instead of offering compensation to the Iraqis, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has demanded that the Iraqi government pay the United States compensation in dollars for the cost of U.S.-led war. The Iraqi response was to kick Rohrabacher out of Baghdad.
In the end, as with the debt-ceiling deal, Republicans rejected some of what the Obama administration lavished on them, almost as if it were too much of a good thing.
If the Doha Peace Agreement fails, regional conflict and suffering would be sure to deepen, as would the Bashir regime’s isolation.
The relationship between the United States and China is probably the most important current bilateral tie in the world. In his new book America’s Challenge – Engaging a Rising China in the Twenty First Century, Michael Swaine at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace interviews over 50 current and former U.S. officials in an effort to identify current problems and challenges in U.S.-China relations, evaluate policies adopted by the U.S. government, and propose ways to improve the relationship.
There is no denying that Anders Behring Breivik’s manifesto and beliefs are rooted in a distinctly post-9/11 ideology of anti-Islamism.
As opposed to a long-term strategy, deterrence only makes sense as a bridge to disarmament.
After the killing of Libyan rebel military commander Abdul Fattah Younes, the future of Libya is more in doubt than ever.
To Pamela Geller, the youths at Utoya were elitist anti-Semites, Hitler youth, not to mention race-mixers.