Richard Kim, The Nation. October 9, 2009. It's as if the Nobel Committee gave Obama the award for behaving like a normal American president, instead of like a clueless corrupt cowboy.
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. May 13, 2009. Cheney said the only way for Obama's diplomacy with Iran to work is if Obama also threatens to bomb the country.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 27, 2009. It appears that Obama is getting off on the right foot, with exactly the right message.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 26, 2009. Obama's administration will engage in "direct diplomacy" with Iran, the newly installed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.
M.K. Bhadrakumar, Asia Times. December 2, 2008. No sooner had the carnage in Mumbai ended than a three-way diplomatic tussle began involving India, Pakistan and the U.S.
Michele Wucker, Women's Media Center. November 28, 2008. Clinton's task abroad would be much like the one she and Obama just faced: to turn an adversarial relationship into an alliance.
Jonathan Steele, The Guardian. November 10, 2008. If Obama truly believes in diplomacy, he will use it to forge new, individual relationships with Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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.
