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What do you know: Commentary summer intern, Adam Hirst, opens his Yale course catalogue, finds Mearsheimer & Walt’s “The Israel Lobby” (London Review of Books version) in a course syllabus and decides to blog about it – unfavorably, of course. The Israel Lobby does not belong in PoliSci 169, “Classics of International Relations,” Hirst contends, [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Magazines
Joe Biden is in Kiev. He has again pledged Washington’s support for NATO expansion to include the Ukraine. Why adding a nation to an already meaningless alliance that will only serve to anger Russia and increase the risk of war is being pursued at all is a mystery to me. Will the US be forced [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
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On Fareed Zakaria’s “GPS,” TAC contributing editor Andrew Bacevich deems Afghanistan only “of marginal interest to the United States.” Pakistan is the real center of regional gravity. Thus we must ask whether deploying thousands more troops in an Afghan surge strengthens of destabilizes that more vital security concern. Bacevich answers, “We’re [...]
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So grave was the crisis in western China that President Hu Jintao canceled a meeting with President Obama, broke off from the G8 summit and flew home.
By official count, 158 are dead, 1,080 injured and a thousand arrested in ethnic violence between Han Chinese and the Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs of Xinjiang. That is the huge [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Immigration, Trade, World
Interesting to note that the Wash Post and NYT, who were braying “coup” a week ago, have gone all revisionist on Honduras now that they realize that Manuel Zelaya’s “Bolivarian revolution” plans for his country might not be a very good thing either for Honduras or for the United States. The Times had an editorial [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
The British Sunday Times carried a planted false story yesterday that Saudi Arabia would allow Israel to use Saudi airspace for an attack on Iran. Per The Times Israeli Mossad chief Meir Dagan had secret meetings with Saudi officials who approved the use of a “common Saudi/Israeli” objective of striking Iran’s nuclear program. The story [...]
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Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race has finally, mercifully come to an end. The Minnesota Supreme Court voted unanimously to reject Norm Coleman’s court challenge which means Al Franken is the winner by a little over 330 votes.
Lincoln-Douglas this U.S Senate campaign definitely was not and serves well as an example to why the 17th Amendament needs [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy, World
Watching the military parades held in Iraq’s cities earlier today to celebrate the departure of the US troops and noting the deaths of four more Americans during the withdrawal it was all too easy to think that the wheel has turned full circle. Iraq is headed by a strongman who intends to stay in power [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
It shouldn’t be surprising that just a few months after hearing that the Obama Administration might not be able to fulfill its hopes for a “civilian surge” in Afghanistan due to a lack of interested/experienced American personnel, we now hear of Drug Enforcement Agency pilots being coerced — some say forcibly and illegally — [...]
Filed under: Economics, Foreign policy, Iraq, War
It would be naive to say, as some hard core non-interventionists have, that the United States has no interest in what is taking place in Iran. Even though a victory by the so-called reformers would not end Iran’s nuclear program and would not stop the country’s rivalry with the United States in the Persian Gulf [...]
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