The Holbrooke mission
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has departed in a number of significant ways from his predecessor George W. Bush’s style and substance in managing external affairs. Even in the case of intractable…
Obama
President Barack Obama as warrior president, is no different from his predecessor George W. Bush. He has emerged as the author and practitioner of the doctrine of ‘targeted killing’ which…
For America, the problem is Pakistan
We will need to remind ourselves often in the next few years that the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan is not the Obama administrations fault. It inherited from George W.…
Financial crisis to create global realignment
THE story of American dominance in world affairs for nearly half a century followed by its relative decline in both political and economic power begins with one public policy decision:…
What lies ahead
Although Barrack Obama, when elected president, had no experience of foreign or military policy-making, he seemed, unlike the insular George W Bush, cosmopolitan in outlook and a keen student of…
The war president’s options
George W. Bush did not think long and hard before unleashing his nation’s formidable military might on Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. It’s more than…
The terror war and human rights
Nine days after the Sept 11 attacks George W Bush announced the launching of his “war on terror,” which he said “will not end until every terrorist group of global…
Where is my country?
In his book, Dude, Where Is My Country? Michael Moore questions George W Bush and his neocon collaborators what they had done to America by pushing it into the wars…
