Tag: foreign policy
member name: Sean Paul Kelley
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April 24, 2006 11:28 PM EDT --
E&P writes today on how "God Shapes His Foreign Policy."
Sayeth our George W. Bush:
I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true. One, I believe there's . . .
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June 02, 2006 12:16 AM EDT --
Several days ago William Arkin wrote up a post at the WaPo about what we discussed last night. I find Arkin's post much better and more thought provoking than George Friedman's, mostly because . . .
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June 13, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
The day before yesterday and a few days before that I made allusions to and wrote about Dr. Brydon and what happened during the First Afghan War. In late 2001 I was pretty darn convinced that what is happening . . .
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July 05, 2006 10:49 PM EDT --
This post comes from a comment made in this post. It is about why we cannot discuss Israel in this country like mature adults:
If they want to discuss the role of AIPAC on American foreign policy, well, . . .
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December 30, 2008 08:00 AM EST --
It must be said. What is happening in Gaza is an atrocity. 300 for 1 is simply not acceptable. It is reprehensible. It is barbarism. Plain and simple.
And of course, the Israel Lobby will continue . . .
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June 27, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
I'll be back to blogging later today. I'm going to try and wrap up the last 100 or so pages of Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine."
In the interim, from page 65, here's . . .
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June 20, 2006 02:08 AM EDT --
This backgrounder on China from CFR asks some pretty damn good questions about the state of Sino-American relations and the role of China in the world. One of the most important questions in determining . . .
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July 02, 2006 01:38 PM EDT --
It's a question I get asked a lot from people who are upset with me when I criticize this president for his massive and multiple failures leading up to and in the execution of the American-Iraqi War. . . .
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July 03, 2006 03:12 PM EDT --
One of Ahmed Rashid's gifts as a writer is his way of capturing moments of heartbreaking absurdity. In the June 22 issue of the New York Review of Books, his reportage on Afghanistan does just that. . . .
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August 23, 2006 06:41 PM EDT --
There is an awful lot of pinging the system going on right now. Testing defenses? Dry runs? I know some of you out there think the whole al Qaeda thing has been blown out of proportion. Of course, this . . .
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August 25, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
Steve Clemon's favorably cites this essay by Martin Walker of UPI in which Walker says while the US plays poker, Iran is playing chess. I'd rather think Bush is playing checkers myself. Regardless, . . .
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December 03, 2008 04:33 AM EST --
Well, now I have another dilemma: India and Pakistan. Before the attacks on Mumbai I was alright with traveling in India and Pakistan. But now as things look, I'm rethinking the idea. Here's . . .
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June 20, 2006 10:07 PM EDT --
It really is sad when life imitates "Team America: World Police." But it is. Kim Jong-il has distracted us all. From the CFR, to "Condi Rice's stenographer of choice" at the New . . .
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December 24, 2008 07:48 AM EST --
Tom Friedman wants the US to be like the rest of the world. We won't be. We have too many problems to address in America. From a foreign policy that's been hijacked by two narrow minded religious . . .
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August 23, 2006 12:28 AM EDT --
The title of this post ought to stick in the gullet of quite a few conserva-bloggers. As well it should. I mean, Bush, just like Yassir Arafat, never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Reagan . . .
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June 20, 2006 10:18 PM EDT --
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis (Arms Control Wonk) and I had a fascinating discussion on Iran, arms control, deterrence, and the future of nuclear warfare week before last. Dr. Lewis is a damn bright fellow, someone . . .
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August 05, 2006 10:39 PM EDT --
There's been a lot of talk about a resurgent Russia in the media lately--an Economist front page, Time, Newsweek and the lot of them. I'm not sure why that is. As a pure, absolute measurement . . .
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December 01, 2008 09:35 AM EST --
This is a really interesting article in the Times about Georgia, the Ukraine and NATO. Well reported and worth a read.
The real meat comes at the end of the article. It really is about the Germans . . .
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June 21, 2006 11:59 PM EDT --
Last night I wrote:
Kim Jong-il and associates are watching closely to see what an overstretched US military, an out of gas Presidential Administration and an hungry for oil Japan will give Iran (if . . .
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June 22, 2006 05:13 PM EDT --
Last night I highlighted this op-ed by Asia wonks Ashton Carter and William J. Perry. My first reading was pretty breathless, I admit. But then I sat down and re-read it. So many of the assumptions they . . .
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