shadow.foreignpolicy.com - 3/17/2009
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By Christian Brose I finally got around to reading this Fareed Zakaria piece that some have recommended, and I can't say I'm much impressed. He's usually a smart writer, but he makes assumptions in this piece that are far more reflective of the so-called "Washington establishment" he ...
newsweek.com - 3/16/2009
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newsweek.com —
As George W. Bush 's term came to
a close, he had few defenders left in the...
world of foreign policy . Mainstream commentators almost unanimously agreed the Bush years had been marked by arrogance and incompetence. "Mr. Bush's characteristic failing ...
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Zakaria: New American Foreign Policy | Newsweek Voices - ...
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Working With Iran
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Christian Brose writes: ...one of the many tragedies of the Iraq war was that, at the moment (in April 2003) when U.S. leverage over Iran was highest, the Bush administration did not attempt to use it to change Iran’s behavior. Chris Dierkes piles on: In the beginning of the Afghanistan Conflict and prior to the Iraq War (2002 basically) the Iranians offered help to the US in the building of a post-Taliban Afghan government. Since the Taliban were/are sworn enemies of the Tehran ...
Standing Athwart History
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
... . Christain Brose argues: The real sticking point is how a Syria or a Russia defines some of its "interests." Damascus's desire to dominate Lebanon is not an interest. Nor is Russia's attempt to create a sphere of influence in its old imperial stomping grounds and prevent sovereign nations from making free choices about their own foreign policies. Such "interests" should be, in Zakaria's words, "by definition unacceptable." I think this only serves to confirm Zakaria's point. According to Brose, the U.S. is the arbiter of which interests are legitimate, and which are not. And ...
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