Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has often been perceived as unwilling to negotiate with the US [REUTERS] Washington, DC - In January 2009, just before Gary Samore left his position as Vice-President for Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, he summed up his rather cynical view of how Iran would conduct negotiations. “The logical position [...]
US Worries About Impending Preemptive Israeli Strike on Iran Some argue Israel would not bother to get clearance from US before launching a military attack on Iran by John Glaser, January 14, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum U.S. defense leaders are increasingly concerned that Israel will take military action against Iran [...]
Bacevich: After Iraq, War is U.S. Editor’s Note: Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. This post is one of four from the Council on Foreign Relations in response to the question, Was the Iraq War worth it? By Andrew Bacevich As framed, the question invites a sober comparison of [...]
Occupy Foreign Affairs It’s not the topic of George Packer’s latest essay that’s particularly surprising. Inequality, he writes, is undermining democracy. Progressives have been hammering home this message for years if not decades. Nor is the choice of publication necessarily a shocker. Foreign Affairs is the flagship publication of the elite that runs American foreign policy. [...]
US to Have Military Presence, Prop Up Afghan Government Well Past 2014 No settlement with the Taliban is possible before 2014, so the U.S. plan is to continue the mission for the foreseeable future by John Glaser, November 07, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum There is very little chance for a political [...]
US had ‘frighteningly simplistic’ view of Afghanistan, says McChrystal Stanley McChrystal said the US and Nato were only 50% of the way to achieving their goals in Afghanistan. Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP One of America’s most celebrated generals has issued a harsh indictment of his country’s campaign in Afghanistan on the 10th anniversary of the invasion [...]
Obama has been unable to confront, and put to rest, US labour unions’ fear-driven hostility to trade [EPA] It is now apparent that the United States is the main culprit in preventing the ten-year-old multilateral trade negotiations known as the Doha Round from being closed this year. The US has even spurned World Trade Organisation [...]
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