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bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 23 days ago
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A stable and enduring peace can only emerge
once Afghanistan is closed down as a theatre of...
strategic competition between India and Pakistan. And this can only be achieved when the issues that motivate and sustain that competition are resolved......
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A Temporary Peace?
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bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 10/11/2009
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The more one learns of Pakistan, the stronger
the conviction that, like the British before them, in...
the tribal areas of that troubled country, the Americans are fast approaching the limits of their power......
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Pakistan: Flawed concept, failed state
bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 9/24/2009
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Except at the most general level, thinking strategically
about the Greater Middle East is a thankless task....
On the basics, everyone is agreed. The challenge is a millennial one - how to transition the Middle East out of its ruinous security competition and away from the old antagonisms...........
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Thinking Strategically About the Middle East
bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 9/15/2009
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One of the most frustrating aspects of the
Afghanistan debate is that, although the interests of the...
key players in the region are broadly congruent, at the same time there are a whole set of conflicting geopolitical imperatives at play..........
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Multilateralising the effort: Obama, AfPak and the U. N.
thesisbyscott.blogspot.com - 9/2/2009
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A familiar debate surfaced on the pages of
Foreign Policy Magazine this week - the ongoing one...
between neoconservatism and its critics. The subject of controversy is Paul Wolfowitz’s latest intervention..........
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Wolfowitz and his critics - why he is right and they are ...
bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 8/13/2009
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US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard
Holbrooke’s breezy suggestion that we will know what success...
in Afghanistan is “when we see it” caused something of a stir in the blogsopshere today. The remarks were made at a Centre for American Progress event in Washington yesterday...........
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Holbrooke heightens concern over Afghanistan...
bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 8/5/2009
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There is a real reticence on the part
of elites to frame the foreign policy argument in...
national interest terms. This must be overcome. We need to purge the debate of this sort of moralism, get beyond ethics and place the national interest back at the centre of foreign policy......
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beyond ethics: putting the national interest back at the ...
bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 7/27/2009
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It is just one of the many ironies
that swirl around this debate that the public are...
questioning the logic and coherence of our strategy in Afghanistan at the very moment all the elements needed for a focused strategic effort are finally put in place.......
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Afghanistan: finally, a strategy we can support...
bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 7/22/2009
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After a decade of foreign policy activism, the
first task for the incoming Tory government is to...
design a diplomacy that acknowledges limits. At the same time it must continue to advance British interests. This is a difficult balance to strike........
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the devil is in the detail....
bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 7/17/2009
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Obama’s cautious realism on the Iran issue has
been pitch perfect, and yet still we find Mark...
Steyn lampooning him as ‘By-stander in Chief’ and the Henry Jackson Society attacking him for 'weakness'.....
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Why Obama is Right on Iran...
bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 7/17/2009
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In this month’s Standpoint, John Bolton takes Obama
to task for “rejecting American exceptionalism” and ‘sounding like...
a European’. Quite how someone with such a flimsy grasp on the history and philosophy of American foreign policy can have risen to such a position of influence is beyond me........
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John Bolton gets it Wrong, Again...
bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 7/17/2009
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Anyone who thinks the West is going to
put another army into the field any time soon...
has not been paying attention. The whole trend in today’s diplomacy is towards a more subtle blend of elements. The aim being to bring both hard and soft elements of power into the mix........
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Smart Power: The Key to Obama's Grand Strategy
