8,155 posts tagged foreign policy
SubscribeEdwards Endorses . . . Worldview of USA as 'Bully'
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John Stewart Tells Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy: “With All Due Respect, It was DECEPTION not Error.”
http://4and20blackbirds.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ john-stewart-tells-former-u…by jhwygirl Monday night’s The Daily Show - which shows at midnight Tuesday morning here in the mountain west - had an extremely interesting interview with Douglas Feith, former Undersecretary for Defense Policy - the man who helped formulate the war in Iraq. So there I was a midnight, trying to fall asleep.
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Council on Foreign Relations Group Calls For END to Cuba Embargo
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/ archives/ 2008/ 05/ council_on_fore/The Council on Foreign Relations has just released a zinger report on Latin America. It's just fantastic, and I have to admit that I rarely find myself doing jumping jacks and running around my block in Dupont Circle in Washington after reading a CFR Task Force report. But I am.
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AND THAT’S THE WAY IT IS…
http://voxd.blogsome.com/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ and-thats-the-way-it-is/AND THAT’S THE WAY IT IS… Posted at 1:59 pm on Wednesday the 14th Filed under: America, Foreign Policy, Iraq Compounding atrocity with inertia. It is a fetid space indeed inside that nutshell, but — in a nutshell — this snippet from a Q&A piece stands as a sage summation: Have we done something that can’t be undone in Iraq? Iraq is already undone.
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Edwards Endorses . . . Worldview of USA as 'Bully'
http://newsbusters.org/ blogs/ mark-finkelstein/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ edwards-endorses-…It wasn't just Barack Obama's candidacy that John Edwards endorsed tonight. It was also the worldview that sees the United States as a "bully." Consider these lines from Edwards just-completed speech. JOHN EDWARDS: There's also a wall that's divided our image in the world.
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The UN Security Council Pipedream
http://signal.nationalinterest.in/ archives/ madhu/ 1239Former UN Under-Secretary General Shashi Tharoor outlines why India’s dreams of permanent membership in the UN Security Council is going to remain just that- a pipedream. The problem is quite simple: for every state that feels it deserves a place on the Security Council, and especially the handful
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Bush’s Goodbye Tour of a Middle East in Crisis
http://themoderatevoice.com/ entertainment/ cartoons/ 19625/ bushs-goodbye-tour-…Bush’s Goodbye Tour of a Middle East in Crisis May 14th, 2008 by WILLIAM KERN So what’s the global prognosis for George W. Bush’s latest and last trip to the Middle East as President? Judging from this account from Le Figaro’s Jerusalem correspondent Patrick Saint-Paul, one might diplomatically
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Aid From Above
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/ archives/ 2008/ 05/ aid_from_above.phpAid From Above 14 May 2008 04:22 pm Someone asked me the other day why we can't just drop relief supplies on Burma, nevermind what SLORC has to say about it. That seemed like a good question to me, and I didn't have an answer.
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Kathleen Frydl - Is Iraq Another Vietnam?
http://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ kathleen-frydl-is-iraq-another-…by matttbastard Dr. Kathleen Frydl, Assistant Professor of History at U.C. Berkeley, draws parallels between the Vietnam War and the current war in Iraq. Related: Der Spiegel interview with Lawrence F. Kaplan: “Before the war, Iraq was an abstraction, an idea.
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Bush's great war sacrifice: giving up golf
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/ node/ 8849Bush's great war sacrifice: giving up golf Wed, 05/14/2008 - 3:16pm PAUL J.RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images Responding to a question from the Politico about why he hasn't played golf in recent years, U.S. President George W.
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Serbia Turns Westward, Spurns Russia; Media Yawns
http://newsbusters.org/ blogs/ richard-newcomb/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ serbia-turns-westw…The Democrats and the mainstream media have long been pushing the meme that George W. Bush is a 'unilateral cowboy' who alienates our supposed allies. Funny thing about that, in the past six years, the governments who actively oppose American goals and who expressed their disdain for the current
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