A former senior diplomat say President Obama's foreign policy was more focused on winning public opinion polls than enhancing U.S. interests in the world.
RALEIGH — Dr. Maha Alattar has a perspective on Iraq that’s different from the one reported by national media. Unlike American journalists, Dr. Alattar is a native of Iraq and offers an unusually insightful version of what is happening in her country. Alattar is an assistant professor of neurology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She spoke Monday at a John Locke Foundation luncheon. Alattar left Baghdad in 1983 with her family when she was 10 years old. They escaped persecution under Saddam Hussein’s government because of their Persian ancestry and their Shiite faith. Alattar’s relatives, however, were persecuted by being imprisoned, deported, and executed in the late 1980s.
Some believe that John Edwards is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for vice president, and that the announcement might come soon.
RALEIGH — Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney ended his distinguished career with the U.S. Air Force as assistant vice chief of staff after combat in Vietnam and long service overseas in various capacities. He now regularly appears on “Fox News Channel” as the cable network’s senior military analyst. He recently spoke at the Headliner Luncheon Series in Raleigh, hosted by the John Locke Foundation. While in North Carolina he sat down for an interview with John Hood, publisher of Carolina Journal and host of “Carolina Journal Radio.” The following are exceprts of the interview.
Iraqi Shi'ites are rising up against their American occupiers. Or maybe against non-American occupiers. Or maybe not at all. Being a good media consumer is hard work.
Before critics of Operation Iraqi Freedom get too carried away with themselves, they might want to pay attention to the emerging evidence of a Saddam-Al Qaeda link.
Under lecturer Alison Greene, an introduction to anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill became “a daily diatribe against [President] Bush’s Iraq policy,” according to the March 2003 Carolina Review.
While some focus on bringing electoral processes to Iraq, the greatest democratic gift to the country would be American capitalism.
It's not really a word, but "disingenuity" aptly describes the elaborate degree to which some pols will go to mislead.
