weeklystandard.com - 11/26/2008
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As President-elect Obama puts together his national security team, a narrative has emerged to explain the somewhat surprising continuity on foreign policy between President Bush's second term and the incoming administration. There will be a shift to the left, but not a big shift, and certainly ...
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 11/20/2008
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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com —
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 ...
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Barack Obama, Liberal Hawk?
dailykos.com - 12/2/2008
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dailykos.com —
Finally, someone says it. John Isaacs , the
Executive Director of the Center for Arms Control and...
Non-Proliferation , has written a great piece about how much Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton agree on many critical defense and foreign policy ...
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On The Clinton Appointment: More Facts, Less Drama, Please!
africa.reuters.com - 11/25/2008
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By Jeffrey Heller WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) -
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday Israel...
was free to take any action it deemed necessary against Iran's nuclear program, saying there were no U.S. restraints. But the outgoing Israeli ...
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McCain Adviser "Gobsmacked" By Obama's Cabinet
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... rather than a liberal, bent, although Clinton and Steinberg at State should be powerful voices for "neo-liberalism" which is not so different in many respects from "neo-conservativism". Both, for instance, support humanitarian interventions in places like Darfur and Bosnia. ...
Only churlish partisans of both the left and the right can be unhappy with the emerging tenor of our nation's new leadership.
Michael Goldfarb, another McCain blogger, agrees. Conservative Ross Douthat predicted recently that "on an awful lot of issues, the Obama ...
The Mindset That Got Us Into War Is Alive and Well
Antiwar.com Original —
... , have already done that. It should suffice to say that the neocons and the War Party could not have been happier with Obama's NST. The turncoat Joe Lieberman, whose sole purpose in life seems to be starting a war with Iran, called Obama's selections "virtually perfect," and Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard declared that the selections indicate "surprising continuity on foreign policy between President Bush's second term and the incoming administration.
The expectation is that Obama is set to continue the course set by Bush
." Here, I only want to describe the views ...
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