…even under Barack Obama. Nice piece in the FT on European angst about American power, and the continent’s inability as yet to offer a unified foreign policy with punch. Ideally, EU foreign and defense policies could serve as a counterweight to the G-2, read: China and the U.S. The latest flare-up of this angst involved a […]
As you’ve probably heard, the Supreme Court finally issued its opinion on the Citizens United case. Read the full opinion here. And for a good round-up of commentary, I recommend SCOTUSBlog. One interesting point made my Lyle Denniston there is this: Another question, and this one the Court explicitly said it was not deciding, was […]
The New York Times published an editorial yesterday analyzing the Republican win in Massachusetts this week and offering advice to President Obama. I’m not sure why the “gray lady” of American journalism is joining the chorus in this country calling for populist policies as a result of the Massachusetts election — sticking it to the banks […]
One of the most interesting exchanges from George Mitchell’s Charlie Rose appearance earlier this month (to which I linked earlier in the week) is this one: George Mitchell: Israel annexed Jerusalem in 1980. Charlie Rose: Annexed is an important word. George Mitchell: Annexed is a very important word. No other country and including the United […]
There is apparently a disagreement within the U.S. government about the validity of the CIA’s 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). The key bullet points of the NIE, found here, were: We assess with high confidence that until fall 2003, Iranian military entities were working under government direction to develop nuclear weapons. We judge with high […]
The P5+1 (U.S., U.K., France, China, Russia, and Germany) met on Saturday to discuss sanctions on Iran. China signaled dissatisfaction by sending a low-level envoy. The FPA Middle East Blog has the story here.
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Ban Ki Moon visited Haiti for five and a half hours on Sunday. As Huffington Post reports: The U.N. World Food Program plans to start feeding 1 million people in two weeks and 2 million people in one month, the secretary-general said. WFP spokesman David Orr said the agency hoped to reach more than 60,000 […]
From earlier this month, check it out here.
In terms of U.S.-North Korean relations, the year began auspiciously, mysteriously, or even inauspiciously, depending on how one interpreted North Korea’s New Year’s state-run media editorial. The full text can be found here. The passage most frequently quoted in the Western press seemed promising. The editorial stated: The fundamental problem arising in guaranteeing the peace […]
Reflections of a Retired Baby Boomer Topic: Haiti: U.S. Military Contributions While watching the excellent media coverage of the Haitian earthquake last night, I noticed that many people are beginning to wonder why it was taking so long for U.S. military units and other nations and relief groups involved in the effort to […]
Al Jazeera reports on the global response to Haiti’s earthquake: The PBS Newshour reports on the disaster relief efforts of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti (MINUSTAH): And the New York Times elaborates on the Pentagon’s response: Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that 9,000 to 10,000 American troops […]
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