Johnston makes arguments that would sound good if I knew less than I do. The work he cites is in a country with an unstable Islamist government which is in turmoil. It his hard to assess whether he knows what he is talking about and how much success his organization is having.
His real weakness is that he sounds like generations of failed peacemakers starting (going backwards) with Carter, the failed peacemakers during Bosnia, the disaster in Darfur, Hanoi Jane Fonda, peacemakers from the 60′s, Tibet, the failed UN approach in Korean which resulted in a permanently divided country, the Pottsdam Conference, Neville Chamerlain, and the 1927 Treaty of Paris.
I’m not saying that he is wrong. I just find it difficult to believe that he is right.
