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Puzzling & Dangerous U.S. Foreign Policy Comes to an End
by William Pfaff
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The origin of the problem is obvious. When the
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Despite the promise
The idea to advance the
It is an ancient society, historically perhaps the most important in the region, from which the Russian nation itself emerged.
For
This seems not to have been grasped by those in
In 2002, the George W. Bush administration proposed to install a missile system in
The absurdity of this technically unproven defense, against a nuclear weapon and a delivery system
But why? What had
So what has this been all about, at the American taxpayer's expense? Possibly, one day in someone's memoirs, or a graduate student's monograph, we will find the answer. In any case, President Obama has called off this deplorable and costly adventure.
For U.S. in Afghanistan, Why Can't There Be an Alternative to Victory
William Pfaff
Unanimous gloom regarding Afghanistan seems clear confirmation that Barack Obama and his chosen advisers have wasted no time in placing themselves and the country -- in a mere five months -- into the same desperate situation that it took the combined Johnson and Nixon administrations 15 years to arrive at in the case of Vietnam. This view would seem widely shared today -- without influencing policy.
One U.S. Official Takes Honorable Stand on CIA-Sponsored Torture
William Pfaff
Thus far in the CIA torture controversy, as in the torture debate that has gone on in the United States since 2001, I can think of only one high American government figure, holding current office, taking a stand on torture in terms of justice, honor and national integrity.
The Latest Tale From the 'War on Terror' Dark Side
William Pfaff
Little mainstream comment seems to have appeared on the latest revelations of incompetence and sadistic fantasy that have been published this week about the ways in which the American nation lost its honor and international reputation because of the Bush administration's infatuation with torture.
You Can't Blame Obama for American Stubbornnes
William Pfaff
There was a telling caption to a recent French commentary on the American political situation. It read: 'Obama, the man who thinks he's president.
Japan's New Leader and His Country's Fealty to Washington
William Pfaff
The landslide election of Japan's Democratic Party in last weekend's parliamentary vote parallels the election of Barack Obama to the American presidency last November. In both cases opposition parties long out of power (in the Japanese case, all but totally excluded from national power during the six decades of the postwar Japanese government's existence) have been elected at a time of crisis to change the nation's policy.
Puzzling & Dangerous U.S. Foreign Policy Comes to an End
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