When George Bush used the phrase Axis of Evil in 2002, he was making a moral judgment about certain countries and their leaders. Today, we are faced with some of the similar leaders in what I prefer to call the Axis of Irrationality. In both cases, the policy of Open Hand of the Obama Administration […]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
An Audacious Decision
President Obama has made his first major foreign policy decision. On Thursday, he announced that he was stopping the planned missile defense system programmed to be installed in Poland and the Czech Republic and that he would replace it with a more mobile system on ships which eventually will be located in Turkey or southern […]
“You Lie”
President Obama’s Wednesday night speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on health care reform was interrupted by an interjection from a member of the House of Representatives. “You lie,” cried out Joe Wilson from South Carolina when Obama was explaining his proposal concerning health care for immigrants. The audience was stunned, President […]
Afghanistan: Déja Vu All Over Again
When Barack Obama went to the State Department two days after taking office, he introduced George Mitchell as Special Envoy for the Middle East and Richard Holbrooke as Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mitchell gave a well prepared, diplomatic presentation about the difficulties of finding solutions, but he also spoke of his optimism based […]
