A Lasting Freedom Agenda- April 30, 2007 "We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." Could it be that President Bush pronounced those words just 27 months ago At the time they seemed grandiose and reckless but promising of a historic change in U.S. foreign policy. Now they mock a second term that has seen the virtual collapse of Iraq's democratic experiment, the consolidation of autocratic governments in Russia and Venezuela, the extinction of the liberal reform movements that Bush briefly inspired in the...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401551_xml/~3/23... Mideast Relations 101- April 16, 2007 We all know that the United States has never been more unpopular in the Middle East. That, anyway, is what polls tell us -- one out recently from the Brookings Institution reported that for the first time, the U.S. president is more disliked among Arabs than the prime minister of Israel.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401551_xml/~3/23... Darfur on Their Radar- April 2, 2007 For months it's looked like the genocide in Darfur has fallen off the agenda of a White House desperately fighting fires in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. Yet last Monday President Bush's anger rocked the Oval Office when aides presented him with a plan for sanctions against the Sudanese government. Raising his voice, he demanded that his special envoy for Darfur, Andrew Natsios, and national security adviser Stephen Hadley come up with something stronger.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401551_xml/~3/23... |