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This is a guest note by Ted Sorensen , whose most recent book is Counseler: A Life at the Edge of History . Sorensen, former special counsel and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, is a widely published author on the presidency and foreign affairs.
JFK Remembered
22 November 2009 ...
White House
Barack Obama
The is a guest note by Fadi Elsalameen, publisher of the Palestine Note .
For the past several years Palestine Prime Minister Salam Fayyad 's name on the streets of the West Bank and Gaza has become synonymous with the words credibility, honesty, and transparency.
His hard work on ...
World
Hamas
Europe is correct to be skeptical of Turkey's European Union accession prospects - but Brussels should be wary not because Turkey is not "part of Europe," but because its democracy remains fragile and its liberalism incomplete.
The most obvious evidence of Turkey's uneven progress is the ...
World
Turkey
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With all of the talk and controversy about the war in Afghanistan in the past months, it has been easy for many to forget that despite the reduction in violence brought about partly by the 2007 troop surge, Iraq remains troubled. Violence is on the rise again , and last ...
World
Iraq
Afghanistan
This is an audio clip of an extensive discussion with Brian Lehrer on WNYC National Public Radio today about Barack Obama's options in Afghanistan.
I am pleased and applaud President Obama for requiring his advisers to come to him with plans including serious "exit strategies."
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World
Afghanistan
Brian Williams
Barack Obama
I interviewed former UK Ambassador to the United States Sir Christopher Meyer on his new book Getting Our Way: Five Hundred Years Of International Diplomacy . I have begun the book -- and it's a terrific review of five centuries of the world's big moments and how competitive statecraft ...
World
Afghanistan
Foreign Policy
Iraq
Washington, D.C
This is a priceless exchange between journalist "Matt" and State Department spokesman Ian Kelly. Who is Matt?
Terrific job on his part -- not so terrific on George Mitchell's team's part. . .
Daily Press Briefings : Daily Press Briefing - November 17
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:29:30 -0600
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World
Israel
Not a regular topic on the blog, but I really do love wildlife -- and being out in "it".
Although 600,000 others have seen this spell-binding video of National Geographic Paul Nicklen's encounter with a leopard seal , I had not seen it. I have watched it a half dozen times now.
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Other
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In an apparent effort to dumb down the
concept of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) for its readership,
The Economist developed what it calls the " Big Mac Index ." I don't know how much a Big Mac costs in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, but I do know that you can't buy one at a ...
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Another Kind of Big Mac Index
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This is a guest note by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett . Flynt directs the New America Foundation /Iran Project and is a former Senior Director of Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council. Hillary is chairman of Stratega, a political risk consultancy. They are ...
World
Iran
Russia
Huffington Post
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Richard Lugar (R-IN) and House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) have jointly written a compelling case to end the travel ban for all Americans desiring to go to Cuba.
In fact, their piece, titled " Lift the Ban -- ...
World
Cuba
Howard Berman
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I just published an article at The Daily
Beast on White House Counsel Gregory Craig's resignation. For
the record, I am an admirer of Greg Craig's. I think that Craig is one of the few people on the progressive side of things who has a deep grasp ...
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Not Supposed to Happen in Obama Land: Intrigue Behind ...
(Digital Globe-ISIS photo of Qom facility and tunnel entrances; courtesy ISIS )
The Institute for Science and International Security has just posted the just released IAEA reports on both Iran and Syria.
The Iran report titled "Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and ...
World
Iran
This is a guest note from Richard Vague's Delancey Place which ran on 16 November 2009.
In today's excerpt - for young George Washington, a father dying young, the resulting interruption of his education, and the dashing example of an older half-brother helped forge a burning ambition and ...
Congress
Washington, D.C
For those who haven't seen it yet, CNN's Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank had an excellent piece air this weekend, detailing efforts by former Libyan terrorist leaders working with the Libyan government to convince jailed militants to renounce violence and al Qaeda for good. ...
World
al-Qaeda
I can't see this flag from my hotel window, but I could see it from the balcony of the Merit Hotel in Nicosia, Cyprus, where I attended a briefing today with Turkish Cypriot Prime Minister Dervis Eroglu.
The Turkish Cypriot national flag is embedded in the "five finger mountains" of ...
World
Cyprus
Recently, Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice went at it during a session when 187 Members of the United Nations were about to vote against the United States and two allies on the issue of the US embargo against Cuba.
Rodriguez said ...
World
Cuba
Some diplomacy data points I have picked up during my trip to Havana in the last couple of days:
~ There are 65% more non-immigrant visas processed by the US State Department for Cubans wanting to travel into the United States this year than last year.
~ The average non-immigrant visa ...
World
Cuba
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Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw "Radek" Sikorski , husband
of Washington Post editorial writer (and Polish cuisine expert)
Anne Applebaum , is a compelling, brilliant, eclectic political intellectual who I admire a great deal. In part, I ...
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Neocon-Realist Collaboration on Ending Cuba Embargo?
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What can the United States offer its allies?
Throughout the Cold War, the answer was simple: the
United States guaranteed its allies security from the Soviet Union. But this question - which seems so basic - is difficult to answer today. It ...
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What Can America Offer Its Allies?
