International Political Will

I wonder how that appeasement tastes to Obama right about now.
First he boldly proclaims the US demands a freeze of Israeli settlements. Netanyahu and the Israeli right-wing tell the U.S. president to go f**k himself.

In only a matter of weeks, Obama bends over on the Israeli settlement issue and lets Netanyahu have his way with [...]

Almost a full eight years into the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, there are still three institutional sources of violence in the country: the Taliban, the warlords, and the foreign occupation. Each of these institutions feed off each other, generating a vicious cycle that Afghanistan appears unable to break.
The only winning strategy in Afghanistan is reconstruction. [...]

Claims are often made that the United States supports and funds autocratic despots in countries around the world, thwarting democracy when it doesn’t fit America’s interests. Despite an abundance of information, these links between dictators and the U.S. government are often tenuous and difficult to prove.
This gives the right-wing many excuses and arguments to [...]

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates may be the answer to the Democrats’ dreams.
He was the first director of the CIA to rise from an entry-level position (I know, he was mixed up in the Iran-Contra scandal, but he was never charged).
Before assuming the defense cabinet position, he was a member of the Iraq Study Group: [...]

My driver, Durrani, parked the white Land Cruiser next to a roadside market.
Corrugated metal and mud brick shelters line the road, showing their wares for sale to the customers descending down from the mountain villages. Cattle, donkeys and goats on the road far outnumber the cars. Unlucky goats hang upside down with their [...]