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Now Class, Let’s Review Iraq’s Lessons
June 14 - The American people have expressed themselves clearly on the Iraq War itself for quite a while now. By large majorities hovering around 70 percent, they want it to end. Fulfilling this expressed will of the people is our most urgent foreign policy priority, one that can't be forgotten, ignored or deferred. But there is other, related, unfinished business to which we as a people need to attend. The worst foreign policy disaster in U. S. history may actually have an upside of sorts: that the war has served as a tryout for a number of policy innovations. "Thanks" to the war, we know enough now to cross them permanently off our list. By Miriam Pemberton, published in The Asheville Citizen-Times and The Northwest Arkansas Times.
Magazine Article
Raiding the War Chest
June 1 - An economy slouching toward recession, or—depending on who you talk to—already there, has produced two seemingly contradictory effects. It has pushed the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history off the top of the list of citizen concerns. And it has simultaneously gotten those citizens, and even their members of Congress, talking much more about that disaster’s economic costs. By Miriam Pemberton, published in YES! Magazine.
Commentary
A Climate Change Industrial Policy
May 14 - A new looming threat has caught the military’s attention, namely the security implications of climate change. As early as 1997, the CIA set up an Environmental Center that examined the degradation of land and water as a major source of armed conflict around the world. Such niche efforts within the U.S. security establishment have now gone mainstream. By Miriam Pemberton, published in Common Dreams, Foreign Policy In Focus, The Asia Times.