World Politics Review

...The Bush administration's military buildup, the largest since World War II, "may be starting to wind down despite the ongoing costs of Iraq and Afghanistan," according to a current report by the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative...LINK

Even those in America who call for a more humble American foreign policy and recognize the need to listen to foreign populations and global public opinion persist in deploying at every possible moment the most patronizing of monikers in describing their preferred allies: "moderate."

Over the past eight years, the condescending label of moderate has been applied to a variety of potential interlocutors in regional conflicts -- with never a positive result. Negotiations with so-called "moderate Taliban" proved a failure; Taliban… more