Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, former National Security Council officials in the Bush Administration, wrote in May that "the Obama Administration has done nothing to cancel or repudiate an ostensibly covert but well-publicized program, begun in President George W. Bush's second term, to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize the Islamic Republic."
Mark Paul, a scholar with the non-partisan New America Foundation, says, "It's silly to have a conversation about the future of California without talking about Proposition 13."
The plan to devote 4000 new troops to training Afghan forces is another smart call, says Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation: "The Afghan Army has been too small for too long." Obama also won bipartisan praise on the Hill for endorsing the ...
"Lieberman has created a classic European anti-immigrant party," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator. "Only his supporters are the ...
"It shows that given the enormity of the challenges [Clinton] faces she's not scared to get the highest caliber people," says Daniel Levy, of the New ...
Peter Bergen, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The Osama bin Laden I Know, says bin Laden has a close personal connection to ...
As Yale University political scientist Jacob Hacker has noted, Americans today experience far-more-violent swings in household income than did their parents a generation ago. LINK
"The stage is set for a wholesale change in the way the U.S. approaches climate change," says Terry Tamminen, the former environmental adviser to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger and director of the climate policy program at the New America Foundation. LINK
Writing in the International Herald Tribune last week, Trita
Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council, and analyst
Anatol Lieven, argued that insisting Iran give up its right to any
uranium enrichment is untenable, and instead suggested that the Western
powers base their demands on the rights and limitations of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty -- which would allow the international
community "to place a verifiable cap on Iranian enrichment and other
nuclear capabilities well short of weaponization." LINK
Does Osama bin Laden matter anymore? You could be forgiven for thinking he doesn't. In recent months, an impressive cast of terrorism experts and counterterrorism officials around the world has coalesced around the notion that al-Qaeda's leader is no longer an active threat to the West. They point out that he has not been able to strike on U.S. soil since 9/11 or in Europe since the London bombings three summers ago. In Iraq, his most successful franchise operation is… more
