The notoriously opaque political structure of Iran makes understanding their intentions and worldview difficult. While pondering Iran the other day I remembered something that I often forget: in the last five years the United States as invaded the countries on either...
The United States obviously plays a large economic, political and military role in the world today. But, do we also set the bar for international philanthropy (PDF)? Since 2002, the OECD and the U.N. Millennium Project have attempted to persuade developed nations to...
By JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. May 23, 2008 On Wednesday, Joe Lieberman wrote that the Democratic Party he and I grew up in has drifted far from the foreign policy espoused by Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy. In fact, it is the policies that President George...
There’s been a fair amount of criticism of Obama lately by George Bush and John McCain, in what they are terming “appeasement.” As usual, I tend to fall somewhere between the two extremes. I feel a little bit like Homer Simpson when deciding whether...
By JOSEPH LIEBERMAN May 21, 2008 How did the Democratic Party get here? How did the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy drift so far from the foreign policy and national security principles and policies that were at the core of its identity...
