Dennis Kucinich

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Foreign policy and political experts assess the president's speech. Below are responses from Frederick W. Kagan, Kimberly Kagan, Matthew Dowd, Meghan O'Sullivan, Gilles Dorronsoro, Douglas E. Schoen, Andrew J. Bacevich, Ed Rogers and Dennis Kucinich.

Buried in the unfortunate rhetoric of timelines and exit strategies is a critical fact that gives reason to support the ongoing effort in Afghanistan: The president intends to give Gen. Stanley McChrystal 100,000 U.S. troops to use at his discretion for 18 months to pursue a counterinsurgency strategy. McChrystal and his team are the most clear-eyed and determined command group the United States has had in Afghanistan in years.…  Seguir leyendo »

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It is not good short-term politics to escalate the war in Afghanistan. However, it is necessary to avoid the political and security debacle that would arise from an American failure there. We are in Afghanistan to prohibit the rise of an enemy regime or a failed-state environment that would endanger Americans. Failing to do so would be much worse for the Democrats than the fatigue voters will feel from a prolonged, ugly fight in another foreign land. For his sake and ours, President Obama should be in it to win, not just interested in doing the minimum necessary to follow up on his 2008 campaign rhetoric about staying tough on terrorism.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAmérica,

Last spring, as the presidential campaign began, there were 10 Republican candidates on the debate stage and eight Democratic ones, each explaining in some detail what he or she would do for America if elected.

The Op-Ed page asked those who have since left the race to describe one issue that is not getting as much attention as it would if they were still out on the trail talking about it. These are responses from eight of them.

1) Afghanistan. Pakistan. Forgotten.

By Joe Biden, a Democratic senator from Delaware

The next president will have to rally America and the world to “fight them over there unless we want to fight them over here.”…  Seguir leyendo »

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El presidente Bush ha declarado que el Gobierno iraní está proporcionando armas letales a los combatientes de Irak, que éstos utilizan para matar a los soldados estadounidenses destacados en el país. Suena horrible y aterrador, y de eso se trata. La Administración se está preparando para lanzar un ataque militar a Irán. La justificación que ha elegido es la única circunstancia que permitiría al presidente sortear al Congreso y, con todo, iniciar un conflicto militar.

La información que respalda sus declaraciones es cuestionable; las fuentes, anónimas. Desde que la dio a conocer, la Administración no ha vuelto a incidir en la afirmación que hicieron los instructores del Pentágono, en el sentido de que Teherán estaba detrás de esos envíos de armamento, y tampoco ha presentado más pruebas al respecto.…  Seguir leyendo »