Canceling Iraq’s Blank Check
democracyarsenal.org — ... As soon as I get to it I plan on writing up a long post on the trip I took to Iraq in July and August. For now, below is a section and link from a piece posted on Foreign Policy online by yours truly and my co-travelers Colin Kahl and John Nagl: ...

“Biden’s refreshing lack of ideology”…
The Moderate Voice — according to Foreign Policy’s Blake Hounshell over at FP Passport. A sampling: …Biden doesn’t bat 100 percent. He went ahead and supported the Iraq war despite warning that President Bush was underestimating the risks (he now says he didn’t realize Bush would be so incompetent and that he thought Saddam could be deposed by other means). He called the surge “a tragic mistake” in February 2007 while John McCain has backing it wholeheartedly. But he has gotten lots of other ...

Dianne Feinstein at Nora's
The Washington Note — (photo credit: Steven Clemons) I am participating in an excellent two day forum in Chicago organized by the Global Business Policy Council of A.T. Kearney. On Thursday, A.T. Kearney, Foreign Policy magazine, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs will be releasing an interesting new study titled "The 2008 Global Cities Index" that I'll be commenting on later. But as part of the time here, we had dinner at the Art Institute of Chicago -- in what was the rebuilt floor of the old Chicago ...

abu aardvark is dead
Abu Aardvark — ... Okay, that's a little over-dramatic.  But it's true:  Abu Aardvark as you've known it for the last six years is about to close down.  On January 5, I will be joining the launch of the new online Foreign Policy magazine, along with a small, outstanding group of foreign affairs reporters, bloggers, and academics (including ...

A New Blog and a Brag
The Monkey Cage — ... Matthew Yglesias notes that some notable foreign policy bloggers are going to move over to the new online Foreign Policy magazine. That’s good news for one-stop shoppers, but it also presents an opportunity for The Monkey Cage to brag on our GW colleague Marc Lynch; to see why, ...

"Starting today, ForeignPolicy.com is transforming..."
All — "into a vibrant, daily online magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas." And a ton of blogs. Impressive! Sure to become a lot of folks' new homepage.

Inside the new ForeignPolicy.com
Michael Calderone's Blog — I have a new piece up on today's relaunch of ForeignPolicy.com. Susan Glasser, executive editor of Foreign Policy, has an ambitious goal for Monday's Web relaunch: Become the "daily magazine for people interested in the world." Under the stewardship of editor in chief Moises Naim, Foreign Policy evolved from a staid, academic quarterly in the 1990s to a bimonthly glossy that won a National Magazine Award last year for general excellence. But until The Washington Post Co. purchased the 38-year-old magazine in September, ForeignPolicy.com ...

War and Piece — Foreign Policy . As I mentioned Friday, definitely check out the new Foreign Policy site , which relaunched today. You can find (and bookmark) my reported daily, online column on foreign policy, The Cable . Today, I report on " transition purgatory ," for those still in limbo about whether they will get a job in the new administration. "... But now, amid the information vacuum, conspiracy theories abound: 'It's Hillary's fault,' ... has been succeeded by 'It's Biden's fault,' referring to fears that prized White House slots will go to Biden loyalists and ...

Foreign Policy
Crooked Timber — ... So Foreign Policy has a new frontpage, with lots and lots of blogs by a variety of international relations and journalists. I’m considerably more optimistic about this stable’s odds over the long run than I was about the last effort to create a quasi-academic superblog ( the now defunct ‘Open University’ at The New Republic ) since they haven’t made the mistake of relying on a lot of famous or semi-famous people who have never blogged before, and have lots of other commitments and obligations that are likely to come first. Instead, ...

Friends Don't Let Friends
Obsidian Wings — ... The former founding father of American Footprints, Blake Hounshell (fka praktike), has recently overseen the formation of an impressive new media armada over at Foreign Policy magazine.  Foreign Policy's blogospheric collective has assimilated such notables as Marc Lynch, Dan Drezner, Tom Ricks, David Rothkopf, Stephen Walt and Laura Rozen, as well as amassing a group of sensible right-leaning thinkers under the banner "Shaddow Government" (in addition to a host of other features).  It's a target - and inspiration - rich environment for ...

Nice NOT to Hear Norm Coleman at Hillary Clinton Hearings
The Washington Note — Over at Foreign Policy magazine's website, I have a quick review of Hillary Clinton's performance yesterday at her confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. My first reaction listening to this just one-notch-short-of-a-love-fest hearing was that Norm Coleman's absence has made a huge difference. He would have been the John Bolton of that hearing -- the pugnacious, in her face, hard pounding harasser -- particularly highlighting the gaps between presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Secretary ...

Steve Clemons: Nice NOT to Hear Norm Coleman at Hillary Clinton Hearing
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Over at Foreign Policy magazine's website, I have a quick review of Hillary Clinton's performance yesterday at her confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. My first reaction listening to this just one-notch-short-of-a-love-fest hearing was that Norm Coleman's absence has made a huge difference. He would have been the John Bolton of that hearing -- the pugnacious, in her face, hard pounding harasser -- particularly highlighting the gaps between presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State ...

Weekend Opinionator: The Battle Over the Battle in Gaza
Opinionator — ... people under attack react. It is this reality that makes collective punishment, mass bombing campaigns and sanctions so unusually perverse: not only is it wrong to engage in such practices, but it is almost certain to have the exact opposite effect of the one desired … Even if the course of action the outsiders want you to take is a good course to take, you will sooner persist in self-destructive folly rather than give in to their demands. Stephen M. Walt, one of the columnists for Foreign Policy magazine’s snazzily renovated Web site and a co-author of the controversial (to ...

Weather Delay
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Gratuitous Frog-Bashing
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Handwringage Alert
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Disturbing A Funeral
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You Say Hybrid War, I Say Von Clausewitz
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Liking Us Better
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Guest Post by Amjad Atallah: The Fight for the Primacy of US National Security Interests Continues ......
The Washington Note — This is a guest post by Amjad Atallah, co-director of the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force. Charles (Chas) Freeman withdrew his candidacy yesterday for the post of chairman of the National Intelligence Council. This development sets up a worrying trend that will need to be reversed at the highest levels of government. David Rothkopf over at Foreign Policy put it best: Further, those who celebrate keeping out Freeman or any others whose ...

A Nation’s Loss
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Ever Wonder …
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Just Ask Don
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Anthrocool
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Stinker Of A Decision
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IDF Has a Whack At Sudan
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Axis Of Evil
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Massachusetts Tea Party
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Cousin Rusty
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Clemons vs. Gaffney: Reluctant Debaters Agree to Joust for Cancer Charity
The Washington Note — ... The event will be moderated by Foreign Policy magazine's executive editor and former national news editor at the Washington Post Susan Glasser. ...

Clemons vs. Gaffney: Two Quite Divergent Views About the Character and Conduct of American Foreign Policy
The Washington Note — ... But it was interesting and a challenge. Our moderator was Foreign Policy executive editor and former Washington Post Outlook page editor Susan Glasser. ...

LIVE STREAMING: The Obama Administration's Cuba Moves & The Summit of the Americas
The Washington Note — ... David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director of Latin Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Author, Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century David Rothkopf President & CEO, Garten Rothkopf Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Author, Running the World: The Inside Story of the NSC and the Architects of American Power National Security Blogger, Foreign Policy Tom Omestead Senior Writer & Diplomatic Correspondent, ...

"Who-Whom" / "Theory-Policy"
Lawyers, Guns and Money — A couple of weeks ago at the Duck I poked fun at the debate Joseph Nye stirred up about whether theory is relevant to thinking about foreign policy. Then I got my copy of this month's Foreign Policy. All I can say is, if Strobe Talbott can go around presaging his prognostications about great power politics and Russia’s rise with reference to Hobbes’ state of nature and Kant’s perpetual peace, then we've got nothing to worry about. ...

Jay-Z: Less Declining Power, More Shrewd Politician
The Washington Note — ... over at Foreign Policy that refracts the beef between hip-hop legend Jay-Z and hip-hop artist The Game through the lens of International Relations theory. ...

China's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The Washington Note — ... and here) on the bloody clash between the Chinese government and the Uighur population in Xinjiang province. ...

Fallows on Newspapers
Matthew Yglesias — James Fallows has the following interesting observation on re-acquainting himself with the United States after years of mostly living in China: Instead what I notice is the change within the papers I’d read before. The NYT, for all its travails, is a recognizable version of the publication I’d previously known. Personality, depth, world-view, tone. The poor Washington Post is not. Laying off — that is, buying out — so many reporters who knew so much about their topics has had a more profound effect than I would have guessed. (Locus classicus: Tom Ricks ...

The View from My Window: Pomerol's Vineyards and More
The Washington Note — ... one of the hottest foreign policy reads on line, is leaving Foreign Policy magazine's fold and joining Politico. Congratulations to Laura and ...

War and Piece — ... , and other admired reporters and editors. I am sad to have to leave Foreign Policy to do so, where I have had just a phenomenal time and ...

Realists Warn on Iraq Afghanistan War
The Washington Note — ... who each have compelling perspectives on the Afghanistan situation that deserve to be scrutinized closely as well. The New America Foundation also co-manages and co-hosts the AfPak Channel with ...

Steve Clemons: Realists Warn on Iraq Afghanistan War
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... who each have compelling perspectives on the Afghanistan situation that deserve to be scrutinized closely as well. The New America Foundation also co-manages and co-hosts the AfPak Channel with ...

LIVE STREAM: Coll, Bergen, Chandrasekaran, and DeYoung on America's War in Afghanistan
The Washington Note — ... Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Karen DeYoung. The event will run from 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm and will stream live here at The Washington Note. As the debate in Washington heats up about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, I think it is important to provide a variety of perspectives to my readers - and these four are among Washington's most knowledgeable commentators on this topic. Today's event will also serve as the formal launch of the AfPak Channel, a New America Foundation/Foreign Policy Magazine project. As I ...

No Solution to AfPak Without India
The Washington Note — Indian border troops in Kashmir. In his remarks yesterday at the launch of the AfPak Channel, the new joint project between the New America Foundation and Foreign Policy magazine, New America President Steve Coll defined US interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan as going beyond the standard aim of disrupting, dismantling and defeating Al Qaeda. Coll stated that our other paramount interest is to ensure "a stable, modernizing South Asia, particularly including Pakistan, but not ...

FP's Brose to become McCain's national security advisor
The Cable — ... Brose was instrumental in the redesign and relaunch of ForeignPolicy.com earlier this year, including helping to conceive and create the ...

Sensible Foreign Policy Players Move UP: David Huebner to Australia; Christian Brose to McCain Staff
The Washington Note — ... 's senior foreign policy adviser. This is terrible news for Foreign Policy as Brose was a walking hybrid of progressive realism and liberal interventionism. ...

Flynt Leverett and Dan Drezner "Debate" Whether A Grand Bargain With Iran Is Possible
The Washington Note — Last week, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett penned a New York Times op-ed advocating for a robust effort to achieve a "grand bargain" with the Iranians, rather than continuing down the Bush-Obama path of "containment." In response, Dan Drezner over at Foreign Policy wrote a very critical response, in which he counted the ways that he did not like the Leveretts op-ed. I then responded to Drezner's post on this blog. The folks over at Blogging Heads must ...

Who’s clueless now?
The Best Defense — I apologize for the dumbass headline Foreign Policy's front page carried yesterday on my item about President Obama's visit to Dover Air Force Base. "Obama Has No Clue What War Is" was expressly not the point of what I was saying. The guilty party will be sentenced to attend a Joe Biden press conference, if the Geneva Convention allows that. I mean, even our West Coast bureau complained about this. And rightly so.  Flickr user Mel B.

Warmal Gloating
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Moore To Obama, Come In Please Obama
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