One of the biggest foreign policy challenges facing the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama will be reinvigorating what looks like a completely stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Repeated failures in the struggle for peace make clear that a...
Is it really possible that President-elect Barack Obama intends to break his campaign promise to "end the war" in Iraq, and keep US troops in that country well beyond the sixteen month timetable for withdrawal he advocated during the campaign? The answer, according to...
[Note for Readers: To listen to a TomDispatch audio interview with journalist Anand Gopal about the difficulties involved in reporting from Afghanistan, click here.] Just when the Obama presidency-to-be was revving up to introduce its new national security "team" and...
"In a government of law, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the...
Updated at 7:35 p.m. EST, Dec. 4, 2008At least 98 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 177 were wounded in today's attack. Two U.S. soldiers were killed during a suicide bombing and a British soldier died during a shooting incident as well. A significant...
It is a commonly held belief that the current international order dates back to World War Two, with a slight adjustment for the fact that the Berlin Wall and Communism are no more. While it is true that 1945 and 1990 mark the starting points for many things that are...
As a group of retired military leaders prepared to urge US President-elect Barack Obama to quickly put an end to the harsh interrogation practices inflicted on security prisoners, a new United Nations report charged that Iraqi authorities were committing "grave...
Updated at 7:45 p.m. EST, Dec. 3, 2008Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made the accelerated withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq a high priority in the coming months. Violent attacks left at least 21 Iraqis killed and another 16 Iraqis wounded. A blast in the Green...
The incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama should move quickly to engage Iran without preconditions and to promote an Israeli-Syrian peace accord, according to two veteran Middle East experts whose views are likely to have influence over Obama's...
The Mumbai massacre comes at a time when the U.S. is about to switch battlefields in its avowedly "generational" war on terrorism, from the Middle East to South Asia. As we move our forces eastward into Afghanistan and, inevitably, Pakistan, the events in Mumbai light...
