newsweek.com - 11/10/2008
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The foreign-policy and national-security inbox shows that, even on pressing issues, the president-elect has the luxury of time.
washingtonindependent.com - 11/14/2008
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In April 2007, as the United States was
enmeshed in two wars, a Brookings Institution scholar and
Clinton-era State Dept. official testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favor of taking military action as a last resort to stop the ...
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A Window Into Obama’s Foreign Policy
washingtonpost.com - 11/16/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from
the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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What Not To Do (Foreign Edition)
Jules Crittenden —
... In foreign policy what-not-to-dos, this Newsweek article suggests … anything. Stay the course, await developments in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea … hey, almost makes it sound like the Bush administration’s been doing something right. Re Iran … there be dragons. And Newsweek reluctantly acknowledges, that may even include the hated Crusader Gulag at Guantanamo. Sounds like expectations the Messiah’s ascension was going to save the world are being gently lowered: Iraq. Obama has pledged to withdraw U.S. troops. But that’s already getting under way … ...
The Lazy No Change Stories
democracyarsenal.org —
... So please no more uber lame stories about how absolutely nothing is going to change or everything will. Reality doesn't work that way. ...
Nothing Will Change in Foreign Policy?
democracyarsenal.org —
... that exists behind the assertion that nothing will change in a new administration. The best example of this in the foreign policy genre is John Barry's piece in Newsweek. ...
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