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...animosity Nader engendered among liberals in 2000 by cavalierly proclaiming that George W. Bush and Al Gore were two sides of the same coin in an election ultimately decided by fewer people than it takes to fill a large movie theater will not disappear anytime soon. Shortly after his announcement, Democratic presidential candidates were quick to issue their condemnations, with Barack Obama quipping that Nader’s “function as a perennial candidate is not putting food on the table of workers” and Hillary Clinton adding that, “It?...
...election, Nader asserted that only a hairline of difference separated George W. Bush and Al Gore. In Florida, he siphoned 97,488 votes, likely from Al Gore, handing Bush a margin of victory of 531 votes. After two terms under Bush, few would dispute that a world in which Nobel Peace Prize winner Gore were president would come much closer to Nader’s vision of the world than...
...Should the U.S. risk sacrificing Ethiopian military support in the fight against al-Qaeda in neighboring Somalia by insisting Addis Ababa improve its abysmal human rights record and embrace political liberalization...
...failed state, and the national argument over whether and how fast to get out is largely about the effects of instability if we do. In Tuesday's debate, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama danced around the difficult question of whether they'd re-invade Iraq if al-Qaeda reestablished itself there after the U.S. withdrew...
...Likewise Clinton, Obama and John McCain have beaten each other up over Pakistan. The central government's inability to control al-Qaeda in its northwestern tribal territories, and concerns over Islamabad's nuclear arsenal, make handling relations with the country a particularly tricky problem. Hence the tumult over Barack Obama's fairly mainstream assertion that he would strike "high-value" terror targets in Pakistan if the leadership there could not. The confusion over when and whether to intervene across sovereign borders shows how little light has been shed on America's policy for responding to weak-state threats during...