Barack Obama: The Peace Candidate? by Future of Freedom Foundation April 28, 2010 Why would anyone think that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is the peace candidate? True, before President Bush sent an invasion force to Iraq and before Obama was in the Senate, he made a speech saying intervention would be a mistake. But after the invasion, in 2004, he said he wasnt sure how he would have voted when the resolution authorizing Bush to use force to overthrow Saddam Hussein came before the Senate. Since being in the Senate, he has voted to continue the occupation. That doesnt sound much like a peace candidate, does it? Obama has made speeches and written articles demonstrating his full embrace of the interventionist policy that has characterized the U.S. governments approach to the world for many years. Whats truly frightening is that Obama doesnt seem to realize that U.S. foreign policy has been interventionist. For example, he said, We cannot afford to be a country of isolationists right now. 9/11 showed us that try as we ...
Barack Obama: The Peace Candidate? by Future of Freedom Foundation April 28, 2010 Why would anyone think that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is the peace candidate? True, before President Bush sent an invasion force to Iraq and before Obama was in the Senate, he made a speech saying intervention would be a mistake. But after the invasion, in 2004, he said he wasnt sure how he would have voted when the resolution authorizing Bush to use force to overthrow Saddam Hussein came before the Senate. Since being in the Senate, he has voted to continue the occupation. That doesnt sound much like a peace candidate, does it? Obama has made speeches and written articles demonstrating his full embrace of the interventionist policy that has characterized the U.S. governments approach to the world for many years. Whats truly frightening is that Obama doesnt seem to realize that U.S. foreign policy has been interventionist. For example, he said, We cannot afford to be a country of isolationists right now. 9/11 showed us that try as we ...
Barack Obama: The Peace Candidate? by Future of Freedom Foundation May 2, 2010 Why would anyone think that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is the peace candidate? True, before President Bush sent an invasion force to Iraq and before Obama was in the Senate, he made a speech saying intervention would be a mistake. But after the invasion, in 2004, he said he wasn’t sure how he would have voted when the resolution authorizing Bush to use force to overthrow Saddam Hussein came before the Senate. Since being in the Senate, he has voted to continue the occupation. That doesn’t sound much like a peace candidate, does it? Obama has made speeches and written articles demonstrating his full embrace of the interventionist policy that has characterized the U.S. government’s approach to the world for many years. What’s truly frightening is that Obama doesn’t seem to realize that U.S. foreign policy has been interventionist. For example, he said, “We cannot afford to be a country of isolationists right now. 9/11 showed us that try as we ...
Private: JFK’s War With the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated, Part 7 by Douglas Horne November 22, 2013 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 1963: JFK's Quest for Peace I could easily write three separate articles about the third year of JFK’s Presidency, but I’ve decided to wrap up this series of essays ...
The Neocon War on Peace and Freedom, Part 2 by Future of Freedom Foundation April 2, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 In their book An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, David Frum and Richard Perles attitude towards civilian casualties shines through in their brief discussion of the UN sanctions imposed on Iraq from 1990 to 2003. During the first Gulf War, the United ...
Peace Prize to a Man of War by Sheldon Richman January 27, 2003 The day before former President Jimmy Carter formally received the Nobel Peace Prize, he told a reporter he hoped the honor would spotlight the more favorable things that happened during his term in office, such as the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978. Camp David is widely known. Not so well known is another foreign-policy achievement of ...
Peace Prize to a Man of War by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 The day before former President Jimmy Carter formally received the Nobel Peace Prize, he told a reporter he hoped the honor would spotlight the more favorable things that happened during his term in office, such as the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978.
Peace Prize to a Man of War by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 The day before former President Jimmy Carter formally received the Nobel Peace Prize, he told a reporter he hoped the honor would spotlight the more favorable things that happened during his term in office, such as the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978.
The Neocon War on Peace and Freedom, Part 2 by Future of Freedom Foundation April 26, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 In their book An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, David Frum and Richard Perles attitude towards civilian casualties shines through in their brief discussion of the UN sanctions imposed on Iraq from 1990 to 2003. During the first Gulf War, the United ...
Peace Prize to a Man of War by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 The day before former President Jimmy Carter formally received the Nobel Peace Prize, he told a reporter he hoped the honor would spotlight “the more favorable things” that happened during his term in office, such as the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978.
Market Liberalism, International Order, and World Peace, Part 1 by Future of Freedom Foundation April 2, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 In this Post–Cold War epoch the world is desperately searching for international order, global peace, and general economic prosperity. The great debate going on around the world is whether these desired goals can be attained through the existing system ...
Market Liberalism, International Order, and World Peace, Part 1 by Richard M. Ebeling November 1, 2000 Part 1 | Part 2 In this Post–Cold War epoch the world is desperately searching for international order, global peace, and general economic prosperity. The great debate going on around the world is whether these desired goals can be attained through the existing system of national sovereignty or whether they require the establishment of international political organizations with the ...
