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- Awakening to New Dangers in Iraq, Brian
Katulis, Peter Juul and Ian Moss
- Iraq's Displacement Crisis and the
International Response, Center for American Progress and the Heinrich
Boll Foundation
- Getting Beyond Zero Sum, Ken Gude
- Surge or No Surge, the Public Has Made Up
Its Mind on Iraq, Ruy Teixeira
- Issue Pulse: Waterboarding Is Torture,
Center for American Progress
- Syria's Nuclear Capabilities, Joseph
Cirincione
- Bush Supporting GOP Nominee, John Podesta
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Brian Katulis, Peter Juul and Ian Moss, "Awakening to
New Dangers in Iraq," Center for American
Progress, February 13, 2008
The fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war rapidly approaches,
which means the very tenuous and dangerous military and political
situation in Iraq will come back into the spotlight. The conventional
wisdom among most conservatives and Washington policy elites is that
the surge has “worked.” This conventional wisdom ignores
the fact that
the fundamental objectives of the surge—to create a more
sustainable
security framework for Iraq and advance Iraq’s political
transition—have not been met.
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to read the full report.
"Iraq's Displacement Crisis and the International
Response," Center for American
Progress and the Heinrich Boll Foundation, February 11, 2008
Violence in Iraq and the debate over continued U.S. engagement have
overshadowed one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.
Since
2006, sectarian fighting, political and criminal violence, lack of
basic services, loss of livelihoods, spiraling inflation and
uncertainty about the future pushed more than four million Iraqis from
their homes, and made another four million dependent on assistance.
Neighboring countries, which accepted more than two million refugees,
now impose harsher visa restrictions, creating a
“pressure-cooker”
situation.
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to read the full report.
Ken Gude,
"Getting Beyond Zero Sum," Middle
East Bulletin, February 13, 2008
Cooperative work between the United States and its European
allies has been a major challenge throughout the Bush administration,
on any issue. Although not without bumps in the road, the sustained
effort among the United States, Britain, France and Germany in the
standoff over Iran’s nuclear program is a notable deviation from
past discord. That partnership has carried over into the new American
enthusiasm for the peace process. When once it appeared as if the
United States and Europeans were working at cross purposes in the
region, now their efforts complement each other and are better viewed
as opposite sides of the same coin.
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to read the full article.
Ruy
Teixeira, "Public Opinion Snapshot: Surge or No Surge, the Public Has
Made Up Its Mind on Iraq," Center for American Progress, February 8,
2008
Iraq is naturally a subject of considerable discussion in this
election. And despite some candidates claims that the United States is
winning in Iraq thanks to the surge, the public couldn't agree less.
What is remarkable about the surge is how little it has changed the
publics basic views about the folly of the Iraq war and the need for
ending the conflict. Consider these data from CNN polling. In early May
of 2007, 34 percent said they favored the Iraq war and 65 percent
opposed it. Those figures have varied little
in polls taken since then, and today the figures are essentially
identical to those recorded last May: 34 percent in favor and 64
percent opposed.
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to
read the full article.
"Issue
Pulse: Waterboarding Is Torture," Center
for American Progress,
February 7, 2008
Torture is illegal, under both U.S. law and international law. Yet the
form of torture known as waterboarding is now legal, according to the
Bush administration. White House spokesman Tony Fratto confirmed
yesterday that the simulated-drowning technique is now legal and that
Bush could authorize the CIA to continue using it in certain
circumstances. The only problem is that the White House has it wrong.
Countless experts agree: Waterboarding is torture.
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to
read the full article.
The New Yorker - Joseph
Cirincione says Syria is not equipped for a nuclear-weapons program.
"Syria
does not have the technical, industrial, or financial ability to
support a nuclear-weapons program. I’ve been following this issue
for
fifteen years, and every once in a while a suspicion arises and we
investigate and there’s nothing. There was and is no
nuclear-weapons
threat from Syria. This is all political. I think some of our best
journalists were used."
Associated Press - John Podesta
comments on President Bush's pledge to back the GOP nominee and says
that "Bush's best chance to help his party's nominee may be scoring a
foreign policy victory."
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State of the Americas 2008
February 12, 2008
The Merida Initiative, efforts to bridge economic
and social
inequality, burgeoning biofuel markets, hostages in Colombia--these are
only a handful of issues that define the contours of the State of the
Americas in 2008. How do these and other dynamics affect the United
States and its relationship with and place in the Americas? Please join
The Americas Project at the Center for American Progress for a lively
discussion of the evolving interconnections that increasingly define
relations in the Americas. The event will feature keynote speaker Luis
Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank,
followed by comments from and audience Q&A with panelists Leonardo
Martinez Diaz of The Brookings Institute, Adrean Rothkopf from the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, and Michael Shifter from the Inter-American
Dialogue.
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information.
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