Try this for freedom. Iraqi police backed by American forces with Humvees and armored personnel carriers set up hundreds of checkpoints around Baghdad last week – with the goal of checking every driver's license plate. Because of an acute gas shortage and...
In a recent speech at Fort Bragg, a major U.S. military base, president Bush declared, "There is no higher calling than service in our armed forces." It seems fewer and fewer young Americans and their parents agree with him. The U.S. military is finding it...
It was Jim Hoagland, the Washington Post's liberal hawk par excellence, who first pondered the possible foreign policy consequences of Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans. "Will post-Katrina America," he asked in his regular column, "be...
Drawing upon the findings of the (a) Iraq Survey Group, (b) U.S. and British official investigations, (c) contemporary Iraqi official documents, and (d) personal memoirs of UN officials and others, Associated Press reporter Charles Hanley has constructed a highly...
Media coverage of Hurricane Katrina has all but drowned out what may well be two of the most consequential human rights court decisions in recent U.S. history. Last week, a three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled unanimously that President George W. Bush has the...
On Sept. 6-7, 2005, the New America Foundation hosted "Terrorism, Security & America's Purpose," a policy forum featuring scholars, elected officials, intelligence experts, and journalists. A full list of speakers is available here. Juan Cole is...
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Amid increasing tension between the United States and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, and growing concern about overstretched U.S. ground forces, the George W. Bush administration is moving steadily toward adopting the preemptive use of nuclear weapons against...
An extraordinary two-day conference in Washington (much of it on C-Span) sponsored by the New America Foundation,"Terrorism, Security & America's Purpose" featured a host of scholars, elected officials, intelligence experts, journalists, an others, from Tom Clancy...
The New Orleans catastrophe is inexplicable. FEMA's slow response is a mystery. Never before has federal funding for work by the U.S. Corps of Engineers on the New Orleans levees and for the congressionally authorized Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project...
