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The Intellectual Dishonesty of William Kristol

February 25, 2013 By steven-j-gulitti

Tweet   No American with a basic understanding of this country’s military history could not have been anything but taken aback by William Kristol’s intellectually dishonest criticism of this statement in President Obama’s second … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, foreign-policy, neoconservatives, war policy, william-kristol

Play Romney foreign policy bingo tonight

October 22, 2012 By conor

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Mitt Romney’s Lehman Moment?‏

September 14, 2012 By steven-j-gulitti

Tweet <!-- Share --> Did Mitt Romney, in his ill timed and ill conceived commentary on the violence in North Africa, just doom his presidential aspirations the way John McCain did in 2008 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-election, Ambassador Chris Stevens, American Exceptionalism, Anti-American Violence, Anti-Muslim Films, Appeasement, barack-obama, Bill Kristol, bill-oreilly, bush-administration, BuzzFeed, colin-powell, David Ignatius, david-frum, egypt, Embassy Attacks, Eugene Robinson, foreign-policy, fox-news, Geroge W. Bush, Herbert Hoover, Howard Fineman, Jewish Voters, Jimmy Carter, john-mccain, Laura Ingraham, libya, Marist Polling, Mark Salter, mitt-romney, Muslim Protest, Muslim Street Protests, National Journal, neoconservatives, Peggy Noonan, rasmussen-reports, Right-Wing Pundits, Ron Fournier, rush-limbaugh, Swing State Polls, terry-jones, the-weekly-standard, U.S. Embassy in Cairo

A Plan for Afghanistan

November 12, 2009 By robinson4senate

Attending Veteran's Day services at Harvard yesterday, and seeing all of the brave young men and women in uniform, coupled with the tragic news of yet another Massachusetts soldier killed in Afghanistan, brought home to me in a very … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: afghanistan, foreign-policy, jack-e.-robinson, middle-east, senate

Iraq + Afghanistan: Obama’s quagmire?

July 9, 2009 By peter_kadzis

The nation is understandably focused on the economic collapse. Obama is trying to regain America's international credibility with his trips to Russia and the Muslim world. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and the proxy action in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: afghanistan, barack-obama, foreign-policy, iraq, robert-mcnamara, vietnam

Crocodiles and Foreign Policy

March 8, 2009 By chimpschump

Six weeks into the job, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is starting to roll out the Obama administration's approach to the most prickly foreign policy challenges from Arab-Israeli peace to Russia. In her second foreign trip, which ended … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: foreign-policy, hillary, leadership, rice

What happens when “I stand with Israel” becomes “I stand against democracy in the Middle East”?

February 11, 2009 By Mr. Lynne

Once the two state solution is off the table, the international community is going to be confronted with the very real problem that there is a politically and economically repressed majority in Israel.  They will effectively be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: foreign-policy, hamas, israel, likud, middle-east, palestine

Mark Penn Knows How to Quit Pakistan

December 30, 2008 By JimC

Cross-posted from Blue News Tribune and Blue Hampshire. Facts are not merely stubborn, they are annoying. I don't want to think this is important, but I do. http://www.mediabistro.com/prn... Politico reports that Burson-Marsteller and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: foreign-policy, hillary-clinton, mark-penn, pakistan

Kerry Scary on Foreign Policy

October 23, 2008 By massmarrier

Cross-Post: This also appears at Marry in Massachusetts. In good humor, Kerry denied that his addressed was actually an Obama rally. The sense that it was, or became so, increased with the repeated applause and cheers for mentions … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: diplomacy, foreign-policy, kerry, obama, tufts

Prescience: “Are we building Democracy or fueling extremism?” SFRC 7/07, Musharraf’s Resignation

August 20, 2008 By cougar

Look... Let me be frank about this. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  which included Kerry and Biden, and other high advisers have been telling Bush for a long time.  Musharraf is a dictator and can not be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bush, foreign-policy, kerry, musharraf, pakistan, random, sfrc

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