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Bush-McCain Policies Towards Russia Only Promise A Dangerous Arms Race

The decision by President Bush to send 10 Patriot missiles and about 100 U.S. soldiers to Poland is a dangerous escalation of the rapidly worsening relations with Russia since their military actions in Georgia. For months now, the Bush Administration...

Posted on August 18, 2008 9:14 AM

Putin's Russia, Border Security & The Russian Press

Interestingly on the official Russian government-controlled news website, VOICE OF RUSSIA, the news appears to be dominated by Olympic coverage of Sochi hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. You have to do a little search to find news about the big...

Posted on August 14, 2008 3:52 PM

Russia's Latest War Could Impact The U.S.

Motorists this week could wake up to some sharply increased oil prices once again as war between Russia and the much smaller pro-Western Republic of Georgia worsens and impacts nearby oil supplies to Europe and the U.S. And the pro-Western...

Posted on August 12, 2008 9:11 AM

John McCain's High Risk Foreign Policy

While Senator Barack Obama flawlessly wrapped up a highly successful tour of the Mideast and Europe last week and helped to raise up respect for the United States after the frictional foreign policy of George Bush with many states...

Posted on July 28, 2008 9:11 AM

Cuban Nuclear Crisis II

The shared Cold War mentality of both Bush and McCain to support the building of a tiny $3.5 billion dollar antimissile defense shield program in Poland and the Czech Republic could result in Russia staging strategic nuclear bombers in Cuba,...

Posted on July 22, 2008 6:55 PM

Peace And Tranquility Still Elusive In Iraq

The American news media has certainly focused far less on Iraq news coverage since "the surge" has resulted in far less deaths of American service persons. Unfortunately viewing this war in a prism of how it impacts only the U.S.,...

Posted on July 18, 2008 10:04 AM

The Illogical Bush-McCain Policy Towards Iran

It's certainly disturbing news that Congress approved a $400 million dollar budget for the U.S. to pay for more covert action within Iran. And it's certainly disturbing news that the absurd shared foreign policy of Bush and McCain is built...

Posted on July 1, 2008 12:26 PM

New Russian Government Quickly Moving to Build Anti-U.S. and Western Alliances

Foreign policy is certainly one of the weakest areas of the Bush Administration leadership, and the new Russian government of President Dmitry Medvedev has been taking full advantage of this weakness to aggressively court anti-American, anti-Western and nonaligned states into a number of new treaties and partnerships within just the last few days, while the Bush Administration has completely failed to attempt to warm relations with the new Russian government and head off this new movement against U.S. influence.

Posted on May 24, 2008 3:15 PM

Israel Involved In Talks With Both Hamas & Syria

Despite official Israeli government resolutions not to negotiate with either terrorists or rival states that support terrorism, the government of Israel has now officially acknowledged that it is actively involved in talks with both Hamas and Syria and is seeking...

Posted on May 23, 2008 12:00 PM

The Bush-McCain Appeasement Doctrine

To many Republican politicians, the term "appeasement" conjures up dirty images of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who had hoped to somehow construct a foreign policy of coexistence between a democratic Europe and a fascist Germany. Yet, during the Cold War years, and even now in the post-Cold War modern world with most nations still not democratic in nature, Republican presidential administrations including the Bush White House have simply practiced "appeasement" with undemocratic nations or leaders in some form or other.

Posted on May 19, 2008 12:45 PM

A Constructive View On Russia Required From The Candidates

The remaining presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain will need to offer some sort of constructive foreign policy to deal with the new Russian government of President Dmitry Medvedev at some point. Medvedev has never held elective office before,...

Posted on May 7, 2008 6:22 PM

America's Dangerous New Proxy War In South America

These days Washington views everything through a prism of terrorism it seems. And Washington's views on the latest and most dangerous new military tensions between Columbia, Ecuador and Venezuela certainly reflect this view from Washington that every conflict can be...

Posted on March 10, 2008 5:17 PM

Bush Continues to Cave In to Chinese Pressures Over the Taiwan Issue

In a phone call to Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday, President Bush continued his path of mostly caving to any demands of China over their continued opposition to any independence moves of Taiwan. Taiwan is proposing to hold a...

Posted on December 6, 2007 2:40 PM

Republicans Continue to be Both for and Against Terrorism All at the Same Time

Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani would have voters believe that only he can effectively deal with the plight of international terrorism. Yet Giuliani belongs to a political party with a schizophrenic view of terrorism, which since the Reagan years has tended...

Posted on November 18, 2007 7:00 PM

The Iran War Lobby

On the surface, Christians United For Israel appears to support some honorable goals of religious reconciliation between the Christian and Jewish community as well as fostering respect for the role of the Jewish faith in the creation of the later...

Posted on October 23, 2007 3:45 PM

Bush Administration Never Planned For "Victory" In Iraq

President Bush will announce some cutbacks to pre-surge levels of U.S. troops in Iraq in his address to the nation. But the reality is that with the huge strains on the all-volunteer army, there was never any way in which...

Posted on September 12, 2007 3:00 PM

A Flow Of Russian Arms Into Iraq Creates A New Cold War Environment

Russia seems to be increasing its supply of lethal arms into the Iraq mess as a means to hasten the U.S. withdrawal, and for Russia to gain more regional influence over the huge oil assets of Iraq. It appears to...

Posted on September 9, 2007 8:55 AM

The U.S.Still Viewed As A Colonialist Power In Much Of The Developing World

It still has not dawned on the Bush White House, nor many supporters of the Iraq War, that despite whatever good intentions of the U.S. may have had in Iraq, that the U.S. only breeds its own continued opposition in...

Posted on September 5, 2007 7:00 PM

Ahmadinejad Counters The VFW Speech By Bush With Iran's Own Muscle

Today in a speech to the VFW convention in Reno, Nevada, President Bush may have again talked tough about Iran and their nuclear program. And new French President Nicolas Sarkozy even hinted at a possible Western attack against Iran's nuclear...

Posted on August 29, 2007 1:00 PM

Four Landmark Events In The Iraq Failure

I've written so extensively about Iraq since the start of the 2003 war that I can cite four major landmark events that helped to doom the effort as a complete failure. Washington certainly could have avoided any of these...

Posted on August 23, 2007 12:17 PM

Search For Arctic Oil Spurs New U.S./Russia Tensions

A recent new low key conflict between the U.S. and Russia has emerged where Russian research ships and submarines are actively looking for evidence of both oil in the North Pole Arctic region as well as land mass evidence that...

Posted on August 20, 2007 6:00 AM

Iran Ready To Pick Up Broken Pieces Of U.S. Iraq Policy

Unfortunately, Iran only continues to prove itself to be the big winner of the failed U.S. policy efforts in Iraq. New meetings with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have apparently cemented a firmer relationship that...

Posted on August 10, 2007 1:00 PM

Lessons Why Both Vietnam And Iraq Failed

There are important similar parallels in the study of why both Vietnam and Iraq have been failures that cannot be ignored. Both cases should serve as examples for decades for historians and military experts as important examples of just the...

Posted on August 5, 2007 1:30 PM

Iraq Veterans Lament Abuses By Some Fellow Troops

War always creates an environment where a few soldiers bring disgrace to their uniform by their participation in abuses of civilians or other crimes that hurt the reputation of the force they are fighting for. THE NATION magazine has interviewed...

Posted on July 20, 2007 7:18 PM

Oil Still Drives Competing U.S./Iranian Goals In Iraq

Oil still remains the common glue that locks both the U.S. and Iran in a competing foreign policy showdown in Iraq. With 220 billion barrels of undiscovered oil which experts believe to exist in Iraq up for grabs, both the...

Posted on July 6, 2007 1:00 PM

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