Foreign policy

Foreign policy is a phrase used to reference a nation’s political position and guidelines in engaging other sovereign nations throughout the world. In the United States foreign policy is the primary concern for the Secretary of State, who is charged with the responsibility of upholding the nation’s views and interests.

Foreign policy more specifically refers to a political mode of diplomatic engagement. For allies and neutral nations, trade agreements may be discussed and enacted. For hostile or potentially hostile nations, sanctions and embargos may result.

The ultimate goal of any foreign policy must be the preservation of peace and financial markets and the maintenance of international relations through diplomacy.

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• Greek Orthodox Priest = Osama Bin Laden

  
  Veritas Nihilum Vincet — Authority: 113
  Following the Ft. Hood massacre, General George Casey warned against any form of anti-Muslim backlash and expressed the concern that the diversity within the US military not become a liability. Of course, token brown-skin ultra-conservative yammering bitch flap Michelle Malkin was already out of the gate screaming ...
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• Über alles unter den Linden

  
  French Politics — Authority: 484
  Evidently Sarkozys men didnt consult the Germanist Bruno Le Maire, minister of agriculture, who could have told them that "Deutschland über alles" has been politically incorrect in Germany for some time. Otherwise they could have avoided a major gaffe : ... le chœur de l’armée française interprètera, sous ...
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• A Disappointing Year With Obama

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  By William Pfaff Who would have thought a year ago that most of the issues of conflict in America’s foreign relations would be made worse during the first year following Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 10, 2009 Bill Clinton Urges Senate Dems ...
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• Remembering total war

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 574
  On this Remembrance Day, Armagny chooses to remember the horror of total war : Behind such particular, smaller scale, analogies and partisan arguments, played out in nations largely benefitting from a sustained pax, there is the big thing that happened in the two World Wars. There is total war. Slaughter of ...
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• Obama Wrong To Mention Religion In Fort Hood Speech

  
  CAFFEINATED POLITICS — Authority: 528
  There is a very fine line to walk regarding Islam and religion when the whole world is watching.  I made that point in various ways when President Bush was in office, and remain convinced the same is true with President Obama in charge.  That I expect more from our current leader makes the use of religion [...]
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• The coffins will keep coming until we conquer our amnesia on Afghanistan | Jonathan Freedland

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Barack Obama is about to make his most crucial military decision. He should remember what took us to war in the first place This is remembrance week, when we are supposed to wear a poppy or stand in silence and remember those who have fallen. And yet we seem to have a problem with memory – especially when it comes ...
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• Britain offers to give up territory to boost Cyprus peace talks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The government has offered to hand over about half of Britains sovereign territory in Cyprus in an attempt to boost the flagging peace talks between the Greek and Turkish communities on the island, Whitehall sources said tonight. Gordon Brown is expected to announce the move tomorrow. The idea is for the land to be ...
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• Sunni Iraqi Women Take Over Family Burden

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 444
  A persistent failure on the part of the Iraqi government is their treatment of the Sunni minority. During Saddam Hussein’s rule, his fellow Sunni enjoyed many privileges and were awarded jobs and power before those from the majority Shiite population. Now, the tables have been turned and Shiites rule. It is ...
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• John Perkins Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded — and How to Remake Them

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 539
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Nov. 9, 2009Hoodwinked: Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and How to Remake ThemJohn Perkins calls himself a former economic hit man. He has seen the signs of today’s financial meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiasco, the ...
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• I feel for Brown. But he should have left the letter-writing to the Queen | Simon Jenkins

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Despite the hounding of the prime minister over his condolence letter, such acts of sympathy are best left to heads of state The hounding of the prime minister over the Janes affair has been grossly unfair. The widely publicised letter to the mother of a dead soldier was clearly sincere. Its publicised failings ...
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• Wittes Named Deputy Assistant Secretary

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Laura Rozen   reports  that Tamara Cofman Wittes has been named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and will take over the bureau’s democracy and human rights portfolio on Monday. Wittes was previously director of the Middle East Democracy and Development Project at Brookings’ Saban ...
  13 hours ago

• Our ‘Reassured’ Allies

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Justin Logan beat me to the punch , but Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal’s op-ed in the Washington Post warrants more than just one comment. Kagan and Blumenthal fret that the Obama administration’s policy of “strategic reassurance” is sure to fail. Aimed at encouraging Russia and China, especially, to ...
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• Embracing Karzai?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Despite recent reports that President Obama was  nearing a decision  to deploy approximately 30,000 more troops, Meteor Blades at the Daily Kos explains that National Security Advisor Jim Jones denied the reports as “absolutely false.”  Richard Cohen argues the U.S. must either  surge or revert to ...
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• Americans in Limbo in Turbulent Iran

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  There is now some  confusion  about the status of three  American hikers  arrested in Iran. They are either “charged with” or “accused of” spying, depending on how one Persian word is translated, writes Arash Aramesh . IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei claims “the  foreign policy apparatus ...
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• Will Abbas Resign?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has denied reports that he called for the  dissolution of the Palestinian Authority  out of protest against the stalled peace process. However, Erekat affirmed that President Abbas hopes to pressure Israel and the U.S. by threatening to resign, a move that would make Hamas ...
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• Rajiv Shah to Head USAID

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Laura Rozen at Politico reports that Rajiv Shah will be  nominated to head USAID . The 36 year-old Shah currently serves as the USDA Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics and Chief Scientist and has previously managed a $1.5 billion vaccine fund for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Hill ...
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• Bodies of British soldiers killed by Afghan policeman brought home

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Somebody had hung a guardsmans bright red ceremonial tunic on a road sign outside a pub. Relatives of one of the dead men wore T-shirts bearing a picture of their loved one and and explaining his relation to them: "Grandson", "Brother", "Bro". The scenes in Wootton Bassett have become all too familiar, but the ...
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• Saving Europe

  
  Eunomia — Authority: 594
  Alex Massie brings a bizarre Robert Kaplan column to our attention. In this column Kaplan offers his best Otto von Bismarck imitation. Bismarck was once quoted as saying that the world would succumb to materialism without war; Kaplan replaces materialism with decadence, but the idea is much the same. It is also ...
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• The Security Situation in Afghanistan is in Freefall

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 480
  Did you know it was getting this bad? The Government Accountability Office warns us that the security situation in Afghanistan is getting worse each day [pdf alert]: Developing a self-reliant Afghanistan is a key end-state goal articulated in the U.S. strategy for Afghanistan, which notes that achieving such an ...
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• Our Foreign Policy Seems to Consist Solely of Figuring Our Ways to Hand People Over to Tyrants

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 474
  When this man is executed, it will be, in part, our fault.Earlier this month, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a self-described “Muslim Zionist,” traveled to the U.S. to address audiences... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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