U.S. Foreign Policy AttitudesIn a recent
New Republic online article (
World Weary), Carnegie Visiting Scholar John Judis uses a hybrid of history and recent poll findings to explain why Americans have changed their foreign policy outlook from liberal internationalism and neoconservatism after 9/11, to the current tendency of isolationism.
U.S. Immigration PolicyStephen Johnson, Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America at Heritage, argues that U.S. immigration policy should focus less on Mexico and more on Latin America. In his analysis (
Heritage.org - Immigration Plans Need a Foreign Policy Component), Mexico is merely a transit point, not the true source of the problem.
U.S. & IraqPresident Bush gave a televised address to the nation last night, again defending the war in Iraq and his strategy for winning that conflict. The White House transcript of the address can be found
here. The
New York Times report on the event can be found
here. The
Washington Post report can be found
here. What did you think of the speech?
