Commentary Series
Commentary Series
Dunsmore: Sound Foreign Policy Judgement
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The final presidential debate, which will focus on foreign policy, takes place next Monday night in Florida. Barrie Dunsmore offers a historical context for viewing that discussion.Commentary Series
Dunsmore: Style Over Substance
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Most of the media pundits have declared Republican presidential candidate Governor Mitt Romney the victor in his first debate with president Barack Obama. Barrie Dunsmore grades the news media.Commentary Series
Dunsmore: Coping with Freedom
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Barrie Dunsmore says that the current turmoil in the Middle East should come as no surprise – because much of the region is still in the throes of revolution.Commentary Series
Dunsmore: October Suprise
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America’s role in the world was a low priority subject at both political conventions. Yet as Barrie Dunsmore notes today, there’s still time for the world to force itself onto the election agenda before the November elections.Commentary Series
Dunsmore: Remembering Gore Vidal
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In his thirty plus years as ABC News diplomatic and foreign correspondent, Barrie Dunsmore traveled with American presidents and secretaries of state and met many world leaders. He also had the good fortune to interact with an international cultural icon who died recently.Commentary Series
Dunsmore: Syria After Assad
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The 16 month old crisis in Syria may be moving toward the end of more than four decades of Assad family rule. But as Barrie Dunsmore explains, what would replace the Assad regime is very uncertain.Commentary Series
Dunsmore: Arafat Post Mortem
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Ever since his death in 2004 there have been rumors that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat did not die of natural causes. As Barrie Dunsmore tells us, new information has come to light that suggests Arafat might have been poisoned.Commentary Series
Dunsmore: Egyptian Standoff
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Even with the election of the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi as the country’s first-ever freely elected civilian president, the Egyptian Revolution continues to look uncertain. Barrie Dunsmore reviews where things now stand.Commentary Series
