Kevin Ryan, senior fellow at the Belfer Center, will discuss the shooting at Fort Hood tonight, November 9, 2009, at 7 p.m. on WGBH TV’s “Greater Boston with Emily Rooney.”

For more on the show and where you can watch, go to: http://www.wgbh.org/greater_boston/index.cfm

“I think it is the grappling with important problems with greater-than-expected candor, genuine authenticity and extraordinary sacrifice that accounts for the military’s high standing. The chosen military messengers often convey that. Can we say the same of other sectors of society: hard problems, candor, authenticity, sacrifice?”

Ben Heineman, Belfer Center senior fellow, wrote “Petraeus, not Westmoreland,” which the Washington Post published in its “On Leadership” blog on November 2, 2009.

For the full opinion article, go to: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19672/

“I think the challenge, as I mentioned, is how to take resources from Iraq and move them to Afghanistan. Because what no one wants is resources moved so quickly that things start to become less stable or shakier or deteriorate in Iraq at the same time that those resources may not be sufficient to change the trajectory in Afghanistan.”

Meghan O’Sullivan, a lecturer in public policy at the Belfer Center and former Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, was interviewed about the future of U.S. policy toward Iraq in this exclusive Belfer Center interview.

For the full interview, go to: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/18783/

“Bush saved American lives? Tell that to the families of the 4,200 U.S. military personnel who have perished in the needless war in Iraq. While they served heroically and deserve the great thanks of the American people, the tragic truth is that they were engaged in a war we should not have been fighting and which was sold to the Congress, the media and American people with exaggerated and even false claims.”

Richard Clarke, a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center, wrote “President Bush saved U.S. lives? That’s only more Karl Rove-style spin,” which the Daily News published on January 8, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/01/08/2009-01-08_president_bush_saved_us_lives_thats_only.html

“With the end of the Bush presidency in sight, the situation in almost all areas of domestic and foreign policy is worse than it was. On Iraq, however, we in Israel owe him an enormous debt.”

Chuck Freilich, senior fellow with the Belfer Center’s International Security Program, wrote “A parting word of thanks,” which the Jerusalem Post published on November 11, 2008.

For the full oped, go to: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/18667/parting_word_of_thanks.html

Euphoria at No 10 greets stunning Labour win in seat it had written off
Guardian (UK)
November 8
Quoted: Joseph Nye
Topic: Parliamentary victory for Britain’s Labour party

… Joseph Nye, Harvard professor at the Kennedy school of government and liberal foreign policy analyst, argued yesterday that Obama’s election will also liberate Labour.

Nye told the Guardian: “The British Labour government had to manage tensions to keep its relations with the Bush administration in four areas.

“The Iraq war drove a huge wedge into the centre of Labour. Europe was also a problem. A large part of the Bush administration was Eurosceptic in a way that will not apply to Obama.

“In the first term at least the Bush administration was unilateralist, and remained inept in communicaitng with Europe. Finally the third way conversations between Democrats and Labour going back to 1997 produced a surprising meeting of minds. None of that was possible with Bush. I should think Brown can be very relieved.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/08/downing-street-number10-labour-glenrothes-byelection-gordonbrown-snp