senate foreign relations

Clinton Sees GOP Backing For START Treaty

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Wed, 08/11/2010 - 10:51pm

Some Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have raised concerns that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty could limit U.S. missile defense plans and the U.S. ability to modernize its nuclear arsenal.

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Can We Buy Our Way Out Of The Afghanistan Conflict?

Donklephant  Sun, 10/11/2009 - 4:22pm

It’s a little known fact that one of the big reasons Iraq turned around is we simply offered a better price than al Qaeda.

Within a month the word got out that we were paying top dollar and the insurgents were turning against the terrorists and the US body count started to drop.

Will the same strategy work elsewhere?