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As everyone expected, the DPJ won a resounding victory in Japan’s parliamentary elections. Here is my column for The Week on what this means for modifying the U.S.-Japan alliance. Obviously, I disagree with Kissel’s assessment of the foreign policy implications of the DPJ win, and it doesn’t make much sense to refer to [...]
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The underlying problem is that the Cold War generation of U.S. Russian experts has been supplanted by the post-Cold War generation, now grown to maturity and authority. If the Cold warriors were forged in the 1960s, the post-Cold warriors are forever caught in the 1990s. They believed that the 1990s represented a stable platform from [...]
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The equation of state with nation is the arch-heresy of our time. A “nation” is, at root, an ethnic and linguistic – occasionally religious – entity. Since it is through language and liturgy that culture is transmitted, each nation will have its own distinctive cultural history, available for use and misuse, invention and discovery.
The state, [...]
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My apologies for the deplorably infrequent blogging for the last few weeks. Between moving to Albuquerque and getting settled here, I have not had as much time to write in the last two weeks. Normal blogging will resume shortly. Thanks for your patience.
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Richard Pipes has an essay in today’s Wall Street Journal that purports to explain Russians’ many “complexes.” While there are some things to say about this part of the essay, I am less interested in that than I am in talking about Pipes’ policy recommendations. Essentially, Pipes spends a great deal of time [...]
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My new column for The Week on the death of Baitullah Mehsud and the war in Afghanistan is now available.
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Spencer Ackerman and Josh Smilovitz note that Huckabee has already stated publicly that he doesn’t believe that Palestinians exist as a nation. Ackerman also professes amazement that a high-profile major party politician can say these things. He concludes:
If ever anyone started to make dubious historical arguments to deny the historical roots of Zionism [...]
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Matt Duss had an article Wednesday on Huckabee’s recent statements earlier this week rejecting a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. In short, Huckabee absolutely opposes any divison of Jerusalem and believes the Palestinians should not have a state “in the middle of the Jewish homeland.” Huckabee said that such an arrangement would [...]
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My apologies for the lack of new posting for the last week. I have been preparing to move back to Albuquerque in addition to other obligations, and I have had no time this week for blogging. Blogging will resume in the middle of next week once I am settled in back home.
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There’s little else I agree with in this Matt Curry piece*, but Curry does make one important point:
Given this location, Ukraine will fall into a sphere of influence [bold mine-DL] and will lean toward either the West or Russia.
Obviously, Curry wants Ukraine to be in “our” sphere of influence, which is probably the most honest, [...]
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