iht.com - 12/1/2008
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Barack Obama selected his national security team because they have embraced a shift of resources in the national security arena away from the military.
gallup.com - 12/2/2008
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gallup.com —
PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans widely approve of Barack
Obama's decisions, announced on Monday, to name Hillary Clinton...
secretary of state and to ask Robert Gates to stay on as secretary of defense. mwboj_5e_uqnvqhkyovxoq These results are based on a ...
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Discriminations —
... Now that he’s going to be president, apparently they’re going to matter more than ever — not because of speeches, but because they may represent the core of our new national security policy. This shift in policy, supported by Obama’s formerly hawkish national security team (Hillary at State, James Jones as national security advisor, Gates at Defense) is described in today’s International Herald Tribune: ...
This Could Be Interesting
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] From the IHT : "Yet all three of his choices - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as the rival turned secretary of state, General James Jones, the former NATO commander as national security adviser and Robert Gates, the current and future defense secretary - were selected in large part because they have embraced a sweeping shift of resources in the national security arena. The shift, which would come partly out of the military's huge budget, would create a greatly expanded corps of diplomats and aid workers that, in the vision of the incoming Obama administration, would be ...
This Should A Three-Popcorn-Bagger
Daily Pundit —
Obama’s advisers to back soft power - International Herald Tribune
Obama’s advisers said they were already bracing themselves for the charge from the right that he was investing in social work rather than counterterrorism…
And well they should, since that is exactly what they are doing.
It’s going to be interesting watching Obama and Hellary try to explain why Islamofascist terrorists are murdering several hundred US “change” workers a month.
Putin to the West: Take Your Medicine
Antiwar.com Original —
... "color revolutions," the deployment of " soft power " in the service of penetrating the former Soviet republics with "civil society" organizations, ...
Putin to the West: Take Your Medicine
Antiwar.com Original —
... "color revolutions," the deployment of " soft power " in the service of penetrating the former Soviet republics with "civil society" organizations, ...
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WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/1/2008
President-elect Barack Obama is choosing loyal friends and one-time foes to guide his wartime foreign policy decisions. Here, the full text of the news release.
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CNN Political Ticker 12/1/2008
CHICAGO (CNN) – President-elect Barack Obama selected New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for the position of secretary of state Monday.
Obama also announced his decision to keep Defense Secretary Robert Gates in his current post, and named retired ...
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