Stephen Zunes, a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist and senior analyst, is a professor of Politics and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. He is the author, along with Jacob Mundy, of Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution (Syracuse University Press, 2010).
The mistakes that the president acknowledged in his speech are perpetuated in his plan.
His rule was a travesty of justice. And so was his demise.
He might have been a nice guy. His foreign policy wasnt.
Ike was right 50 years ago in the Suez conflict. Why has the United States forgotten his example?
The Bush administration’s attempt to impose a new order on the Middle East more compatible with perceived U.S. strategic interests gets another setback.
After January 3, the Democrats will have to do something about Iraq. Early signs are not positive, unless the anti-war movement kicks it up a notch.
The election of a Democratic majority in Congress won’t curb U.S. support for Israeli attacks against the civilian populations of its Arab neighbors.
The war against the Taliban in Afghanistan was more popular than the war against Saddam Hussein. Should it have been?
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bush administration, Iraq, Taliban, warlords, drug lords, opium, women’s issues, civilian casualties, corruption
The Taliban is back. And the United States is largely to blame.
At the UN, George W. Bush praised democracy and diplomacy in the Middle East. Stephen Zunes gives you the real story.
The White House promised a nonpolitical speech on 9/11. So why was the president talking about Iraq?
Talking Points for the Time-Crunched
A shaky ceasefire is in place in Lebanon. Will ambiguities doom the agreement?
Crippling Hezbollah was only the first stage in a U.S.-Israeli plan to remake the Middle East.
The Democrats are missing yet another golden opportunity to distance themselves from the Bush foreign policy.
The Bush administration wants to punish the Lebanese for supporting Hezbollah. Whos next, Syria or Iran?
Accord wont help abused guest workers.
This op-ed ran in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on July 22, 2006.
The U.S. Congress has backed Israel’s military campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza. Here’s a line by line refutation of the congressional logic.