This all argues for reducing the immediate aims of American foreign policy and giving priority to humanitarian as opposed to political goals.
that would be an al-Qaeda recruiter's dream and something that we had a national interest in avoiding
I predict you are looking at an enormous multiyear effort to help this country essentially become a functioning country.
I don't think we can have a one-size-fits-all policy here.
this was probably the most rapid multinational military response to an impending human rights crisis in history
As Senator Kerry said, the idea of a pay-as-you-go formula ought to be the going-in assumption.
People have not begun to plan for it, as I can tell, and have not begun to politically prepare their own publics for it.
I can guarantee everybody--I guarantee you, that, sure as I am sitting here today, that if President Obama had simply tu...
I don't think we've persuaded ourselves that our intervention will necessarily make a bad situation better.
The only way I know to ensure the replacement of the current Libyan regime with something demonstrably better would be t...
But, just because we can't help everybody, everywhere, doesn't mean that, for the sake of consistency, we should help no...