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The Obama-Biden worldview

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Obama-Biden and US foreign policy with Eric Margolis, Phyllis Bennis and Paul Heinbecker. Part 1

Phyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. She is the author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power. Her newest book Understanding the US-Iran Crisis: A Primer will be available in September 2008.

Eric Margolis is a journalist born in New York City and holding degrees from Georgetown the University of Geneva, and New York University. During the Vietnam War he served as a US Army infantryman. Margolis is the author of War at the Top of the World –- The Struggle for Afghanistan and Asia is a syndicated columnist and broadcaster whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, Mainichi Shimbun and US Naval Institute Proceedings.

Paul Heinbecker joined the [[Department of External Affairs (Canada)|Department of External Affairs]] immediately after graduation, and received postings abroad in [[Ankara]], [[Stockholm]], and [[Paris]]. From 1989 to 1992, Heinbecker served as Chief Foreign Policy Advisor and speechwriter for [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Brian Mulroney]], and as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy. In 1992, he was appointed ambassador to [[Germany]]. In the late 1990s, he organized the task force on the Kosovo conflict, and served as head of the Canadian delegation to the Climate Change Convention in [[Kyoto]]. In 2000, Heinbecker was appointed as Ambassador to the United Nations. There he was a strong proponent of the [[International Criminal Court]] and argued for compromise in the lead-in to the [[2003 Invasion of Iraq|2003 attack on Iraq]].

See Part 2 at: http://current.com/items/89255141_will_obama_binden_question_military_dominance

See Part 3 at: http://current.com/items/89259573_obama_biden_and_iran

See Part 4 at: http://current.com/items/89262719_obama_biden_and_iraq
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6 comments // The Obama-Biden worldview

  • simonedward
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      simonedward  

    • THE WHOLE WORLD WILL LOVE HIM, hopefully some asshole doesn't shoot him, like all our other worldly presidents who didn't blow up the world.

    • 3 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
  • asherp
  • asherp
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      asherp  

    • Foriegn policy isn't really as complicated as it seems.

      The USA doesn't actually HAVE a foreign policy. We just fly by the seat of our pants, making policy decisions based on what's convenient at the moment.

      If we actually had a foreign policy, we'd see consistent interactions with all members of the world community.

      Personally, I'm with Kucinich and Ron Paul, that we should have a trade-based, rather than war-based foreign policy.

    • 3 years ago
  • huntre
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      huntre  

    • This is one of the few times when I'd call a video and it's 2nd posted part, "Must See Viewing", and mean it in it's most proper context.

    • 3 years ago
  • endithinks
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