Best of Bush 2007
Bushs foreign policy wasnt a complete wash. As Monty Python says: always look on the bright side of life.
The Poetics of Botero’s Abu Ghraib Paintings
Fernando Botero has created a powerful series of paintings about torture. An interview with two poets on this groundbreaking work.
The Future of Peacekeeping
UN peacekeeping operations are increasing in size and complexity. Why aren’t they getting the financial and political support they need?
The Surge: Illusion & Reality
Car bombings, sectarian violence and attacks on U.S. troops are down. But does the reduced violence have anything to do with the “surge”?
Poor Iraq: First Mongols and Now Americans
For the average Iraqi, there is little difference between the Mongols and the United States. Both have laid waste to their country.
John Edwards’ Foreign Policy
The charismatic populist’s positions on many domestic policy issues may warrant progressives’ support, but his foreign policy record is decidedly mixed.
Winning or Losing in Iraq
In order to “win”, we need to sell the invasion and occupation to the Iraqis.
Hillary Clinton on Military Policy
On her foreign policy agenda: There’s every indication that it closely parallels that of the Bush administration.
Beyond the Green Zone
An honest look at Iraq and the U.S. occupation from an unembedded journalist.
The Surgeon Fails in Iraq
It’s time to put the scalpel away and go home.
FPIF In the News
Foreign Policy In Focus The Lehrer News Hour (November 13) and National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation (November 19) talked with FPIF columnist Zia Mian about Pakistan and nuclear weapons.
Paying for the Wars’ Wounded
Veterans’ health care bills are bound to soar thanks to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the government doesn’t appear to be paying attention.
How Much is Enough?
Columnist Frida Berrigan wonders, what ever happened to peace, love, and cutting the U.S. military budget?
The Costs of War for Oil
We have to decide, as a nation, whether our need for Middle Eastern oil is more important to our future than our conduct as a moral and ethical people.
Five Years Later, We Cant Forgive or Forget
Reflections on the fifth anniversary of the Congressional vote granting President Bush unprecedented war-making authority to invade Iraq.