The shift from a permanent war footing to permanent diplomacy has significant promise for prosperity as well as peace.
War, Peace, and Prosperity
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Iraq War
Seeing Past “Death to America”: A Conversation with Hooman Majd
Iranian-American author Hooman Majd says that Americans are starting to see Iran as more than “just a bunch of crazy mullahs shouting ‘Death to America’ all the time.”
Take Syria Seriously–And Stay Out
Syria’s civil war has inspired some in Congress and in the media. Stupidity or insanity? Some people don’t learn from past mistakes. Why start another body count in a Middle East conflict with no direct relationship to U.S. security?
To Wolfowitz, Iraq Was Just a Chance for the U.S. to Demonstrate Its Power
Wolfowitz took saber-rattling to the next level.
After Iraq, Climbing Out of the Moral Abyss
Empires decline due to moral decay from within. Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, our nation is looking at the moral abyss. If lies have delivered us to this place, then only the truth will begin our journey back.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (4/1)
Missile defense, drones, and other instruments of the devil.
Don’t Blame the Iraq Debacle on the Israel Lobby
Right-wing Israeli governments and their U.S. supporters deserve blame for many policies that have led to needless human suffering, increased extremism in the Islamic world, and decreased security, as well as rampant violations of international legal principles. The U.S. invasion of Iraq, however, is not one of them.
America’s Other Dark Legacy In Iraq
Although the breathtaking violence that attended Iraq’s descent into sectarian nightmare has been well documented in many retrospectives on the 10-year-old war, what’s often overlooked is that by far more mundane standards, the United States did a spectacularly poor job of governing Iraq.
Wrong Choice, Again
The conclave to elect the new Pope was an opportunity for the Catholic Church’s all-male college of cardinals to choose someone who would lead the Church into the 21st century. As they did when they elevated Joseph Ratzinger to his role as Pope Benedict XVI eight years ago, they flubbed the opportunity.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (3/22)
Emphasis, as always, added.