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Wanted: a Grand Strategy
This morning I found a pair of interestingly interlocking columns. In his column in the Washington Post Eugene Robinson urges the incipient Obama Administration to formulate a coherent plan for the War on Terror: A concept that excludes nothing defines nothing. That’s why one of the most ...
Obama Backs Long-Wanted National Strategy But Says Gov't Can't Do It All
onthehillblog.blogspot.com — President-elect Barack Obama used yesterday's 20th observance of World AIDS Day to say he wants to enact... a national AIDS strategy -- a blueprint to fight the disease long wanted by activists. However, Obama also says responsibility to eradicate the deadly illness is not solely government's job. (more) Obama Backs Long-Wanted National Strategy But Says Gov't ...
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What To Do, What To Do?
The Glittering Eye — ... The second post is about the need for a grand strategy in the War on Terror. My suspicions are that the Obama Administration will be realist in the sense that it won’t come up with one and that a realistic foreign policy will continue to spread joy and merriment wherever it goes. ...

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