As many pundits have noted, if the rest of the world were voting in the U.S. presidential election, the third presidential debate would probably have proceeded differently. But since only about 200 million people on earth are eligible to vote for the man whose policies will impact all of us, the final stretch of the campaign has turned into a bipartisan exercise in imperial chest-thumping.
Is refusing to vote for President Obama a waste of your vote?
The ease with which we’ve accepted drone attacks bodes ill for the future.
Security knows security when it sees it.
The larger question facing our nation about the U.S. role in the world and how the candidates themselves would define what is in the national security interest of the United States was almost completely ignored.
It’s sometimes lost on the arms control community that halting the spread of nuclear weapons begins at home.
The U.S. right wing appears to have a lock on conspiracy theories in the Obama era. But historically, such paranoid theorizing has been a bipartisan pastime. Has our dispossession from democracy blunted our ability to see reason?
He felt that, as a friend to Israel, he was obliged to tell them to discontinue engaging in acts that were both immoral and threatened its own self-interest.
The response of Libya to the Benghazi attacks provide hope that it may be capable of controlling the militias in the end.
You can be sure that the presidential candidates will keep certain issues at arm’s length on Monday.