yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/20/2008
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Ross Douthat forecasts Barack Obama’s political strategy :
Even with the GOP brand in the toilet, Republicans are still trusted as much or more than Dems on foreign policy, mostly for somewhat nebulous “toughness” reasons. So why give the Right a chance to play ...
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 11/19/2008
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Jim Geraghty : So Joe Lieberman is keeping
his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee on the...
say so of 42 Senate Democrats AND President Obama ; his Secretary of State might be Iraq War supporter and preconditionless-summit opponent Hillary ...
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Eyes on the Prize
americanforeignpolicy.org - 11/17/2008
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americanforeignpolicy.org —
Among the many challenges that will greet President-elect
Obama when he takes office, there are few, if...
any, more urgent and complex than the question of Iran. There are also few issues more clouded by myths and misconceptions. In this Joint Experts' ...
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American Foreign Policy Project
jpost.com - 11/19/2008
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jpost.com —
"We are ready to do whatever is demanded
of us" in order to stop Iran from getting...
a nuclear weapon, IAF commander Maj. -Gen. Ido Nehushtan told German magazine Der Spiegel in an interview published Tuesday. Nehushtan told the magazine that whether a ...
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Israeli Air Force chief: We are ready to deal with Iran ...
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Barack Obama, Liberal Hawk?
Ross Douthat —
Yglesias cries foul on my last post, with its prediction that Obama would end up earning a "strange new respect" among some right-wing hawks - and that he might even end up bomb, bomb, bombing Iran: A phased withdrawal from Iraq plus a stepped-up campaign against
al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan wouldn't be a lurch to the right, that's what Obama's been calling for throughout the campaign.
And, indeed, way back in 2002 he was saying that instead of invading
Iraq, we should have a stepped-up campaign against al-Qaeda in
Afghanistan and ...
MIDDAY ROUNDUP
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... yesterday. Flying down to D.C. in private jets was a public relations nightmare, and the CEOs behavior in front of Congress may doom a very necessary bailout, John Amato says at Crooks and Liars. GM CEO Rick Wagoner’s admission that the troubled automaker had not developed contingency plans was a bungled attempt to force Congress’s hand on a bailout, The Foundry’s Conn Carroll alleges. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Barack Obama, Liberal Hawk? – Ross Douthat [image] A Big Difference! – Matthew Yglesias [image] The Day the Big 3 Lost ...
The Inappropriateness of Using a Left-Right Spectrum on Foreign Policy
democracyarsenal.org —
Many of you have probably seen the interesting back-and-forth between Matt Yglesias and Ross Douthat regarding Obama’s foreign policy orientation. I just wanted to comment that, while I understand what Ross is saying, I still find this part somewhat baffling: Here's a fearless prediction: On an awful lot of issues, the Obama foreign policy will end cutting to the right of Bill Clinton's foreign policy, which was already more center-left than left. Even with the GOP brand in the toilet, Republicans are still trusted as much or more than Dems on ...
The Limiting of Options and the Broad Consensus on Foreign Policy
democracyarsenal.org —
There has been a lot written in the past few days about the insufficient nature of the right-left spectrum on foreign policy. It inspired me to go back and reread Barry Posen and Andrew Ross's classic 1996 article Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy (PDF). Ross and Posen outline a much more intellectually honest paradigm for breaking down American foreign policy schools. They discuss four basic strategic choices that to me break down into five separate schools of thought:
1. ...
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