Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Leon Hadar
In the Huffington Post, Wesley Clark challenges the Conventional Wisdom’s axiom that “John McCain has foreign policy/national security experience”.
While I respect John McCain’s service, I know exactly what he stands for — Bush’s third term. And in national security terms, John McCain is largely untested and untried. He’s never been responsible for policy formulation. John McCain […]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Scott McConnell
From Iraq, the Times reports “8 Civilians Killed in 2 Disputed Attacks”– one of the them being an American airstrike on a wife and three kids in Tikrit. Iraqi officials confirm the airstrike and the victims; the US military says it killed an “Al Qaeda terrorist” who fired on US troops, and claimed no […]
Filed under: Foreign policy
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Kara Hopkins
It would be hard to find a more discredited fount of foreign-policy wisdom than the man who said, “If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs […]
Filed under: Foreign policy
Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Patrick J. Ford
Some neoconservatives wish we would. Here’s Michael Ledeen:
Once upon a time, we had leaders who supported freedom and did everything possible to bring down tyrants. But not today. Today we give feel-good speeches full of politically correct slogans, wrapped in the mantle of multiculturalism and multilateralism. Even [Condoleezza Rice]’s words are feeble. […]
Filed under: Foreign policy, World
Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Scott McConnell
It’s extraordinary that in a complex modern democracy, so much comes down to the befuddled consciousness of a not very extraordinary man. We are seeing now the ramping up of a campaign to persuade George W. Bush to start a war with Iran before leaving office, so that President Obama would […]
Filed under: Foreign policy
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Philip Giraldi
I have been reliably informed that the CIA added two new stars to the wall of its entranceway about three weeks ago, signifying that two more clandestine service officers have been killed in action. Both died while searching for Osama bin Laden along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The ceremony adding the stars was […]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Leon Hadar
It seems like only yesterday when we were debating whether to do a “regime change” in Burma. Actually it was only last month when a powerful coalition of humanitarian interventionists and and a complex of international aid groups in Washington and Europe were calling on the “international community” to use military power (U.S., NATO) to force the military […]
Filed under: Foreign policy
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Ross Douthat criticizes Michael Brendan Dougherty’s critique of Matthew Yglesias (this post is turning into quite a blogroll), but Douthat concedes an important point to Michael in his second paragraph. He writes, “unless you’re a very stringent non-interventionist (or a pacifist), no matter what theory of foreign policy you choose, you’ll always be able to […]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Philip Giraldi
One of the Bush Administration’s great successes has been its destruction of the CIA, which it regarded as insufficiently loyal to the White House mission of reshaping the world. CIA is now part of a ponderous and ineffective intelligence community that wastes billions of dollars annually while failing to capture or kill fifteen men in […]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Defending his own book from criticism, Matt Yglesias begins sputtering:
My ideas really are basically the ideas that were at the core of the bipartisan, establishment consensus throughout the Cold War years. And they’re ideas that could and should have been the key ideas of center-left think tanks in the post-9/11 world. But that’s not what […]
Filed under: Foreign policy
