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Failed President Defends Failed Presidency
Below The Beltway —
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Jimmy Cater still thinks he handled the Iran Hostage Crisis just fine: CHIANG MAI, Thailand - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday he had no regrets about his handling of the Iran hostage crisis more than 30 years ago, saying he didn’t attack the country as his advisers proposed because thousands of ...1 hour ago -
Breaking the Nuclear Taboo
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen —
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Unlike John Hinderaker, I would be very pleased if Obama expressed regret for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I don’t foresee this happening, but I am always amazed by people who just assume that leveling two cities with atomic weaponry wasn’t a morally ambiugous decision. Related posts... Pundits Don’t Understand ...5 hours ago -
You Say Potato, I Say Potato; You Say 澳巴馬, I Say 歐巴馬
AAA-Fund Blog —
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Someone has Obama’s name wrong. No, there’s not another fake “real” birth certificate with Obama’s “real” name. Obama’s China visit has revealed a dispute over what to call him in Chinese. Although Washington Post reporter Keith B. Richburg doesn’t understand that’s an ideographic writing system ...5 hours ago -
Decision Time Afghanistan – How Much Of It Is About Politics?
QandO —
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R ichard Fernandez of the Belmont Club writes a very well done essay on the present Afghanistan decision making process. He compares Andrew Sullivan’s apologia with David Kilcullen’s concerns about the time involved in reaching a decision. You can disregard the Sullivan part except to understand that he thinks ...6 hours ago -
The triumph of global governance: a round-up
Gideon Rachman's Blog —
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By Alan Beattie, the FT’s world trade editor The Copenhagen conference will agree no treaty; the WTO ministerial in two weeks’ time will not even discuss the Doha round - roughly equivalent to staging Hamlet without the prince, Horatio, Ophelia, Rosencrantz or Guildenstern; the UN food security summit this week ...6 hours ago -
No Climate Treaty At Copenhagen
Below The Beltway —
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Given the news we’ve been hearing lately, this doesn’t come as much of a surprise: President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month, agreeing instead to make it the mission of the ...6 hours ago -
Wanted: Non-corrupt conservative leaders to defend civil liberties
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen —
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David Weigel reports that David Keene of the American Conservative Union and Grover Norquist of Club for Growth have come out in favor of closing Gitmo and trying terror suspects in a federal court. Norquist, who usually describes himself as some sort of libertarian, has never been a particularly visible defender ...6 hours ago -
A “Teachable Moment” That Didn’t Take With Obama
NO QUARTER —
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Remember back in April when Obama traveled to the G-20 and bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia? If not, here it is: Actually, that doesn’t look as much like a bow as it does a genuflect . Not, true, says Obama’s Spokes Weasel, Robert Gibbs. Oh, no - it is just because Obama is tall , and “bending over.” ...7 hours ago -
Foreign Policy Blogging at OTB (Updated)
The Glittering Eye —
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Recently I’ve published several foreign policy-related posts at Outside the Beltway : “Protocol” “Piling on China” “Cognitive Dissonance on the Lessons To Be Learned from China”8 hours ago -
FT Video: Obama in China
Gideon Rachman's Blog —
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The Bow
QandO —
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I ‘ve got to tell you I’m a lot less excited about “the bow” Barack Obama gave the Emperor of Japan than many on the right . But it does, surprisingly, show an amazing lack of sophistication in our supposed cool and sophisticated President. Not about Japanese culture in particular – a bow is not ...9 hours ago -
The Evolution of Blogging: An Interview with John Cole
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen —
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John Coles pets, Tunch and Lily John Cole began blogging at his blog Balloon Juice way back in 2002 when he was a die-hard Republican. According to the FAQ on his blog, you can “check the archive to see how crazy” he was back then. Since then his political views have shifted and the blog has grown. The ...9 hours ago -
China And Trade Imbalances
Fear and Loathing In Georgetown —
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This morning, I saw that Paul Krugman has a column up today about the deleterious effects of Chinas policy of pegging its currency to the dollar. I also watched an interview on BCC World News with an Oxford professor who says that China views itself as the emerging power and the United States as declining. A ...10 hours ago -
Photos: President Obama and Apec Singapore
pacificEyeWitness.org —
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(L-R) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, U.S. President Barack Obama, Singapore Lee Hsien Loong and Chinese President Hu Jintao pose for a group photo after an official dinner for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Summit in Singapore on November ...11 hours ago -
M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction) Rules Over China & The U.S.
A Blue View —
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Wash Post : The U.S. and Chinese economies -- the worlds largest and thefastest-growing major economy, respectively -- have become inextricablyintertwined, locked in a kind of co-dependency that neither side thinksis particularly healthy, but which for the moment neither will move tobreak. > As President Obama ...12 hours ago -
Obama Speaks To Students At Chinese Town Hall
A Blue View —
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NY Times : He didn’t explicitly call on China ’s leaders to lift the veil of state control that restricts Internet access and online social networking here. But President Obama did tiptoe — ever so lightly — into that controversial topic on Mondaywhen he told students in Shanghai that a free and unfettered ...12 hours ago -
"Oba Mao" Big Hit In China
A Blue View —
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In contrast to this post, Obamas Visit & Chinas Racism , this report is far more upbeat:13 hours ago -
France returns Nigeria’s stolen artefacts – The Guardian
Nigerian Bulletin! —
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Two stone monoliths stolen from Nigeria by Camerounian poacher and taken to France were handed over to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, in Abuja at the weekend.Nigeria’s envoy to France, Ambassador Gordon Bristol, who presented the items returned by the government of France, said experts traced ...13 hours ago -
President Obama shifts U.S. policy on Myanmar – video news report
dailyQi —
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Obama shifts U.S. policy on Myanmar – 16 Nov 09, a video news report from Al Jazeera’s Veronica Pedrosa in Singapore. Barack Obama has called on Myanmar’s military rulers to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. In Singapore on Saturday, Obama became the first U.S. president ever to attend a meeting of ...15 hours ago -
Peace Corps to Return to Indonesia
Diplopundit —
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Image via WikipediaThe US Embassy in Jakarta released a statement on the return of the US Peace Corps to Indonesia: U.S. President Barack Obama and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have announced their intent to re-establish a Peace Corps program in Indonesia following their November 15 bilateral ...15 hours ago
