Tag: international politics
member name: Sean Paul Kelley
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November 06, 2008 05:25 AM EST --
I've been giving a lot of thought lately to the Georgian war earlier this year and what it means for Russia's future as a great power. Now, it's undeniable that Russia has a massive nuclear . . .
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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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August 11, 2008 04:38 AM EDT --
I remember the conversation so clearly, as if it happened yesterday. I was meeting with Alex Rondeli, a tall, smart, well-connected Georgian involved in the formation of the country's foreign . . .
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August 14, 2008 12:17 AM EDT --
Ian has a post everyone should read. Also, as a reminder, give this show Ian and I did with noted Russia specialist Anatol Lieven, where we discuss at length Russia and the Ukraine and NATO a listen. . . .
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August 23, 2008 01:54 AM EDT --
I'm inclined to extend this analogy a little further when it comes to the US versus the Russians in strategic terms: it's more like chess players versus checkers players. But still, this graf . . .
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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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July 18, 2006 03:09 PM EDT --
originally posted at my blog ~ The Agonist
Last night Col. Allard and I (and Jack to a lesser extent) went around and around and around on the issue of Hezbollah and Hamas. It was a really frustrating . . .
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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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August 12, 2008 06:14 AM EDT --
The BBC is reporting that Russia has called an end to its operations inside Georgia:
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an end to military operations against Georgia, the Kremlin . . .
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August 17, 2008 01:48 AM EDT --
I'm not one to quote Maureen Dowd, but when she nails it, she nails it:
[W]ith this country’s military and moral force so depleted, the Bushies can hardly tell Russia to stop doing what they . . .
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July 31, 2006 12:12 AM EDT --
This is certainly a refrain we've heard a lot lately: "what's good for Israel is good for America."
Well then, if that is the case, for those of you who support Israel as 'our number . . .
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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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June 16, 2006 12:28 AM EDT --
The way that Japanese and American interests are practically identical has been an endless spell of captivation, at least to me. And then along came Dafna Linzer and Anthony Faiola to break the spell. . . .
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July 21, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
In August of 812 AD the 6th Abbasid Caliph Amin, son of Harun al-Rashid, found himself trapped inside Baghdad, abandoned by his court and besieged by his brother, the soon-to-be-Caliph, Ma'mun. Amin . . .
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July 24, 2006 02:13 PM EDT --
Question, is this boy and his mother a part of Alan Dershowitz's 'civilan continuum'?
Not that it matters a bit that Dershowitz is using the same argument Osama bin Laden made about 9/11. . . .
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August 05, 2008 09:34 PM EDT --
This is just dumb. First, it's a slap in the face of the Chinese and the pride they as a nation are justifiably taking in hosting the games.
Two, as the Times notes:
The Chinese . . .
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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 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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July 21, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
If you didn't get a chance to listen live, or don't get Air America in your town you can listen in at the Young Turks site. The segment was on the recent post I wrote here about Iran and . . .
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