Chris Toensing

Mitt Romney is playing the same cynical game as Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mitt Romney is playing the same cynical game as Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Pakistani government loudly protests that many of the casualties of drone strikes are civilian.

President Obama promised that he’d stop buttressing autocratic regimes, but Bahrain’s popular revolt is still being crushed.

A year after President Obama promised that Washington would stop buttressing autocratic regimes, Bahrain’s popular revolt is still being crushed.

Conventional wisdom holds that NATO bombing saved countless lives.

Body counts would be embarrassing.

The Arab revolts disrupted a dispiriting pattern in the Arab world, and these political and intellectual challenges continue to resonate.

The Democratic Party has tried to out-hawk Republicans since the early days of the Cold War.

The Obama administration looks particularly bad, having spent so much diplomatic energy throughout the Arab Spring pledging to realign U.S. interests in the Middle East with American values of freedom, justice, and dignity.

There’s a growing bipartisan consensus in favor of a prolonged “residual” occupation of Iraq without any open debate about the merits of this dangerous and expensive plan.

With Osama bin Laden’s demise, it’s high time that our leaders realize that short-term gains from alliances with tyrannical regimes aren’t worth the long-term problems they foster.

Democrats and Republicans alike have long wished that U.S.-allied Arab states would forever remain docile dictatorships.

The change upon the advent of Operation New Dawn will be largely atmospheric.

Contrary to the stated aspirations of Washington hawks, the Iraq War has dealt a body blow to the many Middle Eastern activists working for democracy and peace. On these grounds alone, the war has been an unmitigated disaster.

On December 17, 2002, a long-delayed conference of the Iraqi opposition in exile concluded in London.

There is little in the above record to suggest a major departure in Middle East policy when Bush takes office in January.