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Daily Kos — ... That would be a mistake. The guidelines should define the eligible research as broadly as possible to allow the greatest potential for advances. Medical ethicist Peter Singer on stem cells, poverty and more: Paul Krugman: It's not just us, it's them. Maybe more them than us, even. Europe, I mean. Roger Cohen: More on Iran, and Jews and pragmatism (things few others write about.) Fareed Zakaria on foreign policy: Even liberal and centrist commentators have ...

Morning Skim: A.I.G. Big Winners, "X-Files" Conspiracy and More
Opinionator — ... in regards reducing A.I.G. bonuses and says, “the Geithner-Liddy spat is just a bit of theater, to make the great unwashed American public think that Team Obama is on top of all of its financial services industry invalids.” Post Global : Fareed Zakaria enumerates the “striking shifts in foreign policy” made by the Obama administration so far and notes that “these initial steps are all explorations in the right direction” are “deserving of praise.” But instead, the “Washington establishment is mostly fretting, dismayed in one way or another by these moves.” The problem with ...

Power to the People: A.I.G. and Pakistan
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — Paul Krugman Fareed Zakaria “Of all the events and all of the things we’ve done in the last 18 months, the single one that makes me the angriest, that gives me the most angst, is the intervention with A.I.G.” - Ben Bernanke "These people may have a right to their bonuses but they don't have a right to their jobs forever." - Barney Frank "Honoring contractual commitments is at the heart of what we do in the insurance business." - Edward Liddy, A.I.G. Wow. Sometimes public outrage and protests actually work. A.I.G. actually ...

The WonkLine: March 16, 2009
Wonk Room — ... Fareed Zakaria writes that “the problem with American foreign policy…includes a Washington establishment that has gotten comfortable with the exercise of American hegemony and treats compromise as treason and negotiations as appeasement…This is not foreign policy; it’s imperial policy.” ...

NSN Daily Update 3/16/09
democracyarsenal.org — ... Fareed Zakaria pushes against back criticism of the Obama administration’s foreign policy, arguing that an “imperial” foreign policy can no longer work. ...

Quote of The Day
Shakesville — "The problem with American foreign policy goes beyond George Bush. It includes a Washington establishment that has gotten comfortable with the exercise of American hegemony and treats compromise as treason and negotiations as appeasement. Other countries can have no legitimate interests of their own. The only way to deal with them is by issuing a series of maximalist demands. This is not foreign policy; it's imperial policy. And it isn't likely to work in today's world."—Fareed Zakaria. ...

Challenging Empire
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Fareed Zakaria's weekend news show - GPS - has almost immediately become must-watching. Fareed has a deep love of America while retaining an understanding of how the rest of the world sees this place. And like many, he has increasingly come to see the Manichean mindset of some foreign policy hawks as a serious obstacle to America's long-term interests: ...

Obama's favorite columnist
Israel Matzav — ... ) is known as Obama's favorite columnist . The problem with American foreign policy goes beyond George Bush. It includes a Washington establishment that has gotten comfortable with the exercise of American hegemony and treats compromise as treason and negotiations as appeasement. Other countries can have no legitimate interests of their own. The only way to deal with them is by issuing a series of maximalist demands. This is not foreign policy; it's imperial policy. And it isn't likely to work in today's world. The 'Washington establishment's foreign policy seems to have ...

Proof There's No Such Word As "Accountability" In the Village, Fareed Zakaria Edition
Open Left - Front Page — Very Serious Villager Fareed Zakaria attacks America's imperialist foreign policy on March 15, 2009: "The problem with American foreign policy goes beyond George Bush. It includes a Washington establishment that has gotten comfortable with the exercise of American hegemony and treats compromise as treason and negotiations as appeasement. Other countries can have no legitimate interests of their own. The only way to deal with them is by issuing a series of maximalist demands. This is not foreign policy; it's imperial policy. And it isn't likely to work in today's ...

Editorial Pencil Alert
The Mahablog — Before it scrolls into oblivion, be sure to read Fareed Zakaria’s latest column at Newsweek. Then notice the slight editorial change made in the same column at the Washington Post. Newsweek version (emphasis added): Two weeks into Obama’s term, Charles Krauthammer lumped together a bunch of Russian declarations and actions—many of them long in the making—and decided that they were all “brazen provocations” that Obama had failed to counter. Obama’s “supine diplomacy,” ...