Letters to the Editor
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I wanted to know the answer
Who has foreign policy expertise so I googled.
This is what I found:
Find a Foreign Policy Expert
Foreign Policy In Focus is a "think tank without walls," made up of more than 700 policy experts, analysts, and researchers. We have experts in all regions and on virtually every topic currently being discussed in foreign affairs circles. Many are available for interviews, background information, expert commentary, and radio and television appearances. To reach one of our experts, look in our online Media Guide, order Global Perspectives, a print version of our media guide containing our best experts, or contact:
Emily Schwartz, Media Director
Voice: 202-297-5412
Fax: 202-387-7915
Email: emily@ips-dc.org
http://www.fpif.org/media/expert_body.html
They are affiliated with the IRC.
http://www.irc-online.org/
I found this among the many links at the home page:
Emily Schwartz Greco pits analysis from the mainstream media against analysis from FPIF in Five Years Later.
http://www.fpif.org/
This is a popular theme lately but greatly overlooked by the media for some strange reason.
It links to this:
As the Iraq War enters its tragic sixth year, it's becoming hard to imagine a time when the United States won't be entrenched in this quagmire any more. In fact, John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, says "it's fine" with him if the U.S. military remained in Iraq for a century. Really? How did we get so deeply into this mess?
Back in 2002 and 2003, the mainstream media wasn’t fully united behind the initial invasion. However, the nation’s editorial boards leaned toward military action, even if many of them lamented how the diplomatic circumstances prevailing in the middle of March 2003 weren't ideal. Overall, influential U.S. pundits failed to express the kind of universal disapproval of the fateful invasion that might have discouraged the Bush administration from moving forward with this boondoggle.
Foreign Policy In Focus predicted this war would be a colossal disaster before it began. We knew that Iraq's reconstruction and democracy-building would fail, before President George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished." We knew this military operation would make the United States and the rest of the world less safe.
Here's a summary of some of our analysis published on our site and elsewhere when the invasion was looming and soon afterward. We've juxtaposed these comments with quotes from more mainstream analysts, as well as newspaper editorials...
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5071
I've heard from all the people who were wrong, from Krautmammer to Pollack. They are like "household" brand names. The names who were consistently right - who?