The case of Binyam Mohamed just gets weirder and weirder. For the last six months, the British resident and Guantánamo prisoner, who was seized in Pakistan in April 2002, has been engaged in a transatlantic struggle to secure evidence relating to his...
KIGALI - War is expensive. The costs include not only the millions of dollars spent on military equipment and maintaining an army, but also the financial and psychological toll it takes on the everyday lives of people caught in the crossfire. When fighting takes place...
Updated at 6:52 p.m. EST, Nov. 10. 2008A complex bomb attack in Baghdad left scores dead or injured in the capital and almost overshadowed violence elsewhere. At least 45 Iraqis were killed and 101 more were wounded across the country. Another vicious attack occurred...
The Obama-oids aren't talking too much about foreign policy these days, although that was their candidate's ticket to the White House. Iraq was the winning issue that gave Obama's primary campaign the oomph it needed to oust the putative front-runner from her perch as...
The task ahead of President-elect Barack Obama is not to meet all of the expectations of his supporters or to solve every problem facing the United States right now, but to simply practice what he has preached. For many of his supporters, Obama represents a symbolic...
Updated at 7:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 9, 2008The Iraqi work week began with numerous attacks across the country. Unsurprisingly, Mosul took the brunt of the violence again, but bombers also attacked in Diyala, Anbar and Baghdad. Overall, at least 18 Iraqis were killed and 63...
(Editor's note: This is an excerpt from the book Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations, by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz. For more about the Winter Soldier hearings, read this FPIF commentary by Glantz, an FPIF...
The media and the Washington foreign policy elite breathed a sigh of relief when Barack Obama thumped John McCain in the election. Had John McCain won, there was always the chance that the neoconservatives would have beaten out the Republican realists for his...
After a week lecturing at Kansas State University and then in Kansas City, Missouri, I could not shake the feeling that what Kansas and Missouri need most is the equivalent of Radio Free Europe, which was so effective in spreading truth around inside Eastern Europe...
Quoth Barack Obama, then a candidate for the Presidency, way back in August of 2007: "I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance involving civilians." Now that Obama is President-Elect, we all hope and pray that he...
