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Battleground State
Weekly Standard Blog —
The crisis in Georgia is not going away. Russia now officially recognizes the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The White House has registered its official disapproval.
Be sure to check out Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham's piece in today's Wall Street Journal. Key quote:
For more than 60 years, from World War II through the Cold War to our intervention in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the U.S. has fostered and fought for the creation of a Europe that is whole, free and at peace. ...
America Against The World
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... The op-ed in today's WSJ by the McCain duo of Lieberman and Graham is far more important for this election, it seems to me, than parsing the dynamics of the Clinton-Obama marriage. What they are laying out in very clear terms is the agenda of a McCain presidency. The agenda is war and the threat of war - ending cooperation with Russia on securing loose nuclear materials and sharing terror intelligence, in favor of a new cold war in defense of ... Moldova and Azerbaijan. Those are the cold, hard choices facing American policy makers but in this op-ed Lieberman and Graham simply ...
Finger on the Button
Talking Points Memo —
... The op-ed in today's WSJ by the McCain duo of Lieberman and Graham is far more important for this election, it seems to me, than parsing the dynamics of the Clinton-Obama marriage. What they are laying out in very clear terms is the agenda of a McCain presidency. The agenda is war and the threat of war - including what would be an end to cooperation with Russia on securing loose nuclear materials and sharing terror intelligence, in favor of a new cold war in defense of ... Moldova and Azerbaijan. I'm sure McCain would like to have his Russian cooperation, while demonizing and ...
Round and Round We Go
Matthew Yglesias —
... Part of the perverse logic of conservative foreign policy founded on a bizarre combination of hysteria and hubris is that there’s this kind of quicksand phenomenon where the worse things get, the more you need to keep flailing. I think that’s the best way in which to understand this miasma of strategic confusion from Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham. As expected, it’s riddled with contradictions. Russia is simultaneously powerful enough to mount “a challenge to the political order and values at the heart of the continent” (i.e., Europe) but also so ...
Putin and the Presidency
The American Scene —
... , I was very impressed by the latest WSJ op-ed from Lieberman and Graham. Here is Andrew’s characterization of the argument: ...
