Foreign Policy

What would you have done?

In marketing

It’s pretty clear that the American people want to boot Bush & Co. out of the Whitehouse. Barack Obama’s message of change absolutely resonated in Iowa, stunning the country with an astounding win. Even on the Republican side, the insurgent who criticized the President’s “bunker mentality” beat the corporate Bush-apologist in Iowa. Change has been the recurring theme of this campaign so far.

Davenport, IA – How would a President Obama handle an international crisis? One may hope to gain a glimpse as Senator Obama responds to the situation in Kenya. Hundreds of Kenyans have been killed after a disputed election, including approximately 50 who died when a church was burned with refuge-seekers i

It’s the end of the year and a good time to take stock of what we’ve accomplished over the last year. What were you hoping the Democratically-controlled Senate would have accomplished in 2007?

Tonight when Karl Rove makes his New Year’s resolution, I’m betting it has something to do with helping Hillary Clinton win the Democratic nomination.  Rove’s suggestion of her inevitability has been picked up like a mantra by the GOP, Rove’s surrogates and even many in the media.  Rove knows there is only one way for the Republicans to win the Whitehouse in 2008 and that is to divide the country. 
 

As a writer, I frequently fall back on using a analogy to make a point. Today is one of those times.

The analogy is comparing what the United States needs to help settle world peace as compared to cooking oatmeal on top of a gas stove.

The problem that the middle East citizens face is one that seemingly goes back many, many generations. They just can’t seem to get it that the way to solve their differences is at the negotiating table, but they insist on the route of killing one another.

We who are citizens of the United States have spent a couple of hundred years or so trying to settle differences in the same fashion. We really have not settled anything nor solved our problems any better than our neighbors to the East.

We are engaged in a winless and merciless war in Iraq.  We overthrew an egotistic dictator who thought nothing of throwing away lives in a meaningless conflict with Iran.  Now, we mirror this historic act by throwing away lives in a civil conflict has no beginning or no end.

Any elected official who intends to win office or to retain that office had best work for a solution of withdrawal.  The Russians lost in Afghanistan because they attempted to shore up a sympathetic puppet government, and we're walking down that same road in Iraq.

Let me get this straight as I hear some of the anti-war rhetoric being thrown around. “We can’t take military action if we haven’t been directly attacked. They didn’t do anything to us, just made threats”. Ok, with that logic, why did the U.S.