The Washington Independent

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged muslim world

Security Experts: Administration Overstates Domestic al-Qaeda Threat

By | 12.14.09 | 6:00 am

It sounded like a throwaway line in President Obama’s West Point address about the Afghanistan war. “It is from here that we were attacked on 9/11, and it is from here that new attacks are being plotted as I speak,” the president said, tying his troop increase in Afghanistan to More…

Dignity Promotion in Cairo

By | 06.04.09 | 11:29 am

A little over a year ago, I spent some time with the Obama campaign’s foreign policy brain trust to glean the emerging preoccupations of his advisers. There were two overarching themes: first, the meta-idea that Obama would expand the realm of the possible in foreign policy by rejecting the More…