Citizen Obama
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's single most illuminating statement in the course of a just-completed overseas tour was his self-description...
National Security Policy
Implications of the hostage rescue
Visit the Americas Report Blog at https://themengesproject.blogspot.com and leave your comment Highlighted Story 1: "Implications of the Colombian Hostage Rescue" The liberation of former...
Congress, free the hostage
Wednesday’s daring rescue of the four most prominent hostages long held by the Colombian narco-terror group known as the FARC...
Saving El Salvador
Visit the Americas Report Blog at https://themengesproject.blogspot.com and leave your comments Highlighted Story: "Saving El Salvador" FMLN radicals promise a Chavez-like revolution in El SalvadorStrategically...
Bad deal: all carrots, no sticks
President George W. Bush Thursday formally abandoned the last vestiges of a once-robust policy towards a North Korean regime he...
Resurgence in need of restraint
By Jared Anderson Russia’s gargantuan state-run gas company, Gazprom, has been touted as the driving force behind the country’s economic...
Beginning of the end of an obsolete regime
Visit the Americas Report blog at: https://themengesproject.blogspot.com and leave your comments Highlighted Story: "The Argentinian Crisis: The beginning of the end of an...
Can Kirchner last in Argentina?
Highlighted Story: "Can Mrs. Kirchner Last as President of Argentina?" Word through the grapevine is that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner...
Carter 2.0
It isn’t too early to project what an Obama Administration might look like, at least in terms of its foreign/national...
Firing offense
When Defense Secretary Robert Gates summarily fired the top civilian official last week, the reason he gave was a grave...
Peace through strength in a globalized world
By Jonathan Altman With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the over 30 year long period of MAD...
Tale of two books
No sensationalism here: a serious-- and highly sourced-- insider's view of the Bush White House and the War on Terror I don’t...
Mexico’s drug war or ours?
With the Democratic primaries coming to an end, the candidates’ experience on crucial matters of national security and foreign affairs...
We must stand with Colombia
by Nancy Menges Free trade with Columbia will cement Democracy in the Americas The free trade agreement between the United...
The Leaker Shield Act
There is something unique about what has come to be called the War on Terror. In this conflict, as the...
Last Commie standing
After a two year sojourn in a wilderness of mansions, yachts and the other miseries of the international billionaire, Silvio Berlusconi...