What Iraq Victory?
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pmWhat an odd day to celebrate victory in Iraq as Dana Perino is doing. She said “that the conditions are such now that we are…
Posts Tagged ‘foreign policy’
Youth Politics, Lebanon-style
By Jesse Singal - Nov 21st, 2008 at 11:45 amHezbollah is so hot right now:
RIYAQ, Lebanon — On a Bekaa Valley playing field gilded by late-afternoon sun, hundreds of young men wearing Boy…
Assigning Blame
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 20th, 2008 at 2:18 pmOn the debate over which faction is to blame for the GOP’s current electoral woes (intensified somewhat by Kathleen Parker’s recent, kind of inflammatory, column),…
Why Bill Disqualifies Hillary for Secretary of State
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 19th, 2008 at 3:56 pmPerhaps I’m being simple minded, but it seems like Bill Clinton’s recent activities running around the world, giving paid speeches to foreign governments and corporations…
More on Obama and Waziristan
By Jesse Singal - Nov 19th, 2008 at 1:28 pmOver at Duck of Minerva, Rodger Payne responded to my post on the credulousness with which we’ve accepted the idea that the situation in Waziristan…
Ingrates*
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 19th, 2008 at 9:31 amCallous:
insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic: They have a callous attitude toward the sufferings of others.
Asshole:
a stupid, mean, or contemptible person.
Ladies and gentlemen, Andy…
The Expanded Democratic Majority’s Inauspicious Start
By Ned Resnikoff - Nov 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pmYou knew it was coming. And today, it finally happened: Senate Democrats gave Joe Lieberman the delicate little slap on the wrist that we had…
Are We Sure Waziristan Has Much to Do With National Security?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:17 amJuan Cole’s entire article on whether President-elect Obama should emphasize the hunt for Osama bin Laden is worth a read, but this paragraph, near the…
Leach to G-20
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 12th, 2008 at 4:07 pmIt shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that President-elect Obama is sending Madeleine Albright to represent him at the G-20 summit. What’s more…
Pentagon advisory group says cuts are “essential”
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 11th, 2008 at 1:15 pmThe Pentagon’s "Defense Business Board" pushing President-Elect Obama to consider cutting some of the Pentagon’s more wasteful programs:
A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a…
Taking the LGBT Fight Abroad
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pmEmily makes some characteristically insightful points. While marriage equality should still be a major part of our nefarious gay agenda, that fight requires running up…
Lesson for Obama: Enjoy the Good Times While They Last
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 10th, 2008 at 2:00 pmIn today’s Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby doesn’t see the global “Obama lovefest” lasting very long:
Antagonism to the United States is as old as the…
Thoughts on the Brain Stem Controlling Fred Kagan and His Buddies
By Jesse Singal - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmVia Spencer Ackerman, Fred Kagan had a pretty remarkable op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that I had missed until now. Check out Spencer’s post,…
Thinking Twice About Air Power in Afghanistan
By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pmVia Robert Farley, NATO has mandated that its troops in Afghanistan be more selective in their use of air power:
Brig. Gen. Richard Blanchette, NATO’s…
All Politics Is Local (Tehran Edition)
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 14th, 2008 at 10:51 amIt looks like the 2009 Iranian presidential race could get very, very interesting:
TEHRAN — Former President Mohammad Khatami, a moderate under pressure by political…
