Rosa Brooks has rapidly become one of my favorite UVA writers and columnists. Her biography is formidable: lecturer at Yale, worked in the State Department during the Clinton years, served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA, term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. She’s smart. And right.
She recently wrote an article for the L.A. Times, reprinted on Common Dreams, titled “Bush’s $15-a-Barrel Blunder“. Here’s an excerpt:
If the U.S. is truly concerned about energy security, we should shift from a foreign policy that alternates incoherently between selective inattention and sudden spurts of bullying to a foreign policy based on engagement, transparency and the promotion of genuinely democratic political and economic development. If we can’t do that, we’d better get used to bicycling to work.
You should read the whole article here.
