Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. September 18, 2008. It's been a standard right wing line (for I don't remember how long) that diplomacy is for sissies.
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. August 1, 2008. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was every bit as illegal as the invasion of Iraq. Why, then, do so many Americans see it as justifiable?
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. July 16, 2008. Also: is the Bush administration considering the first diplomatic outpost in Iran in nearly 30 years?
Ted Widmer, MIT Center for International Studies. April 30, 2008. Wilson's idealistic vision of democracy and self-determination around the world should serve as a model for the Democrats' foreign policy.
Brian Beutler, Media Consortium. December 20, 2007. Citizen-driven dialogues provide a gateway to more significant talks -- and could help interrupt a violent crisis.
Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. October 31, 2007. Steve Benen: If there are any actual diplomats around who could take over as undersecretary of state, that'd be really helpful.
Leon V. Sigal, MIT Center for International Studies. March 1, 2007. Bush decided to accept North Korea's longstanding offer to suspend plutonium production. Will this new emphasis on diplomacy in the region make a difference?
Joe Conason, Truthdig. December 16, 2006. What deserves far greater attention in the Iraq Study Group report is its conclusion that there is no military solution to the American dilemma in Iraq, and that the only way out is negotiation.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. October 11, 2006. In 2002, Bush put North Korea on a list of potential targets for U.S. nuclear weapons. It's no surprise, then, that Kim Jong Il has responded by creating a threat of his own.
