 AP Photo Today, it is the Democratic Party that almost all alone occupies that once bipartisan space in national security policy, and it is the Democratic Party that today offers the clear-eyed vision of how to best honor our ideas in the world, while the Republican Party, too often in the grips of hard-edged ideology and a determination above all else to defeat President Barack Obama, is almost unrecognizable from its previous incarnation. TAGGED: Osama Bin Laden, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Europe, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Barack Obama, United States, 2012, John KerryRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| Sounds reasonable, no? And humanitarian, for sure. But it’s not. When the Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Ja’afari, claimed the initiative is essentially part of a strategy “promoting imminent military... more ›› |
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