WASHINGTON - Diplomacy now trumps defense as the main instrument of American foreign policy. At least that is the intent that President Barack Obama and his change-minded secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, spelled out on their first days. They made clear that the military will be a prominent - but no longer dominant - tool for achieving U.S. goals abroad.
Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr. is founder and president of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis in Cambridge, Mass., and Washington, D.C., and is a professor of international security studies at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. He's advised U.S. government officials on military strategy, defense modernization, the future of the Atlantic alliance and arms- control policy.
WASHINGTON - When President Bush addresses world leaders at the United Nations this week, he will have fewer options and lower expectations on almost every major foreign policy front than a year ago. The United States is relying more readily on international institutions and alliances for help in Iran, Lebanon, North Korea, Sudan and elsewhere. Yet, according to analysts, the Bush administration has less room to maneuver.
Of these, six survey specific episodes in Israeli military history, one analyses the foundation and evolution of Israel's nuclear policy, and two others cover the chronicle of her diplomatic interactions with her Arab neighbors. Not incidentally, this latter topic takes up the longest chapter in the entire book (chapter 10), which acidly critiques Israel's collective "siege mentality" and "arrogance," contrasting her tendencies to "risk aversion" in matters of peace with her recklessness when resorting to acts of force.
In turn, Israel was enraged by Turkey's refusal to allow it to take part in a joint NATO military exercise off Turkey's shores or a joint military maneuvre with Syria shortly afterwards, along with .Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's designation of Israel as a threat to "global peace" last week. With the Turkish public and increasingly with the Turkish government, there is a sense of resentment against Israel linked to its treatment of Palestinians. That is unusual not because it wasn't there before but because of the extent to which it's being made public and also the extent to which Israelis are reacting to it," Bulent Aliriza, director of the Turkey Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told IPS. "Econo-Islamism is a far call from the traditional ...
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We have heard such reasoning before. It is called "Ben Tre logic," as in the Vietnamese provincial capital Ben Tre. On Feb. 7, 1968, the Associated Press' Peter Arnett famously reported that an unnamed Air Force Major informed him, "It became necesary to destroy the town to save it. The invasion of Afghanistan began in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, when critical analysis of foreign policy was stifled. Since 2003, it became rhetorically useful for many critics of the Iraq War to cover their right flank by identifying Afghanistan as the "good war." Consequently, the merits of the war in Afghanistan have never been freely and fully debated in the press. FAIR's Steve Rendali writes, "The New York Times ana the Washington Post continue to wield an unmatched influence in the nations cap...
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