"Hope" and "Change" were themes of Barack Obama's Presidential campaign. But with the escalation of war in Afghanistan, and across a whole range of foreign policy issues, critics from the left and the right say that the Obama administration isn't much different from administrations before it.
Alain Nairn is an investigative journalist. He reported on the counter insurgency campaign in Guatemala in the 1980s, and on CIA links to Haitian death squads in the 1990s.
He's best known for his reporting on East Timor and Indonesia. Nairn's skull was fractured by the Indonesian military while witnessing the Dili massacre in 1991. When armed groups carried out a scorched earth policy in East Timor in 1999, he was the only western reporter on the island nation.
Alan believes our national security policies have remained consistent through most recent administrations.