To take the measure of U.S. foreign policy in this campaign, we turn to Robert Fisk, Britain’s foremost foreign correspondent, who writes for the Independent and author of new collection of essays, The Age of the Warrior; and Patricia DeGennaro, Professor at New York University and founder of the Institute for Integrated International Policy.
The Deadly Infantilization of American Politics: Robert Fisk and Patricia DeGennaro
| By: GRITtv Friday October 3, 2008 11:58 am |
Perhaps the Iraq occupation has taken a back seat to the US economy in the minds of American electorate. Yet . . . we want and need a little more foreign policy discussion out of this campaign. How is it possible to unfairly grill a prospective commander in chief on a raging war? After 8 years of Bush, have our expectations for what a top leader can articulate fallen so low as to make a meaningful debate impossible?





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Robert Fisk is my hero.
Final Stats on the peace tour: 171 signs placed between san diego and seattle:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..diego.html
saw lots of them still up on the way back…
Why the hell can’t Obama bring himself to say that the surge hasn’t worked and to quote David Petraeus that he expects not to use the word “Victory” in reference to Iraq — “It’s not that kind of war”?
BTW, I appreciated the fact that last night Biden was prepared to quote General MacInerney regarding the futility of any surge in Iran. So, why can’t Obama get that concrete?
Christy’s upstairs, gang.
You set a beautiful example of direct democracy, scarlet.
Robert Fisk was on with Amy Goodman yesterday at Democracy Now. He said “the Taliban is in control of half of Afghanistan”