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As American forces continue the battle to drive Taliban forces from Afghan territory, a debate persists over whether President Obama was right to set a withdrawal date of July 2011 for US troops leaving the country. What was Obama attempting to do by ...
From STEPHEN SCHLESINGER,
Huffington Post,
13 Mar 2010
Author and Adjunct Fellow at the Century Foundation
President Obama's policy in Afghanistan, subject to so much controversy at home and abroad, seems to have found considerable traction over the last few days. First is the news that the US-British ...
From STEPHEN SCHLESINGER,
Huffington Post,
16 Feb 2010
Author and Adjunct Fellow at the Century Foundation
President Obama gave some spine back to the Democrats in his State of the Union speech. He told his fellow party members "don't head for the hills." He said that health care reform is still vital and ...
From STEPHEN SCHLESINGER,
Huffington Post,
27 Jan 2010
The most explosive controversy over President Obama's address at West Point is the deadline he has proposed for the beginning of withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan of July 2011 -- 18 months from now. Most of the media commentary after the speech ...
From STEPHEN SCHLESINGER,
Huffington Post,
1 Dec 2009
I think it is absolutely right to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four alleged co-conspirators in NYC. That is what we did to the last terrorists who attempted to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993 -- among the most notable of them, Sheik Omar ...
From STEPHEN SCHLESINGER,
Huffington Post,
18 Nov 2009
Next his early decision to pay up our annual dues and peacekeeping arrears, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and to switch our payment schedules to coincide with the UN's own budgetary calendar rather than our Congressional one; ...
From STEPHEN SCHLESINGER,
Huffington Post,
3 Nov 2009
Author and Adjunct Fellow at the Century Foundation
One of the missing elements in the ongoing drama over Obama's policy review in Afghanistan is the role of the United Nations. The UN, lest we forget, has played a central role in Afghanistan since ...
From STEPHEN SCHLESINGER,
Huffington Post,
24 Oct 2009
My doubts about the US mission in Afghanistan, like those of many other Americans, have grown substantially over the past several years. While I think America was justified in toppling the Taliban government in 2001 for harboring the Al Qaeda criminals ...
From STEPHEN SCHLESINGER,
Huffington Post,
15 Oct 2009
Last year a, young author named Gordon Goldstein wrote a book entitled "Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam" outlining the numerous missteps taken by successive US governments that eventually led to America's getting ...
From STEPHEN SCHLESINGER,
Huffington Post,
30 Sep 2009
President Obama gave a speech last week in Moscow that conjures up memories of our greatest foreign policy presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and John Kennedy. Two lines from Obama's address directly echo the themes and concerns of these ...
From STEPHEN SCHLESINGER,
Huffington Post,
11 Jul 2009
