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Style Points in Europe
President Obama has now been back from his first international tour for a week now. What did he accomplish? Was the trip a success, a failure, or something in between? The answer, of course, was that...
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Barack and Bibi: Nobody Drowned!
The mini-summit between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahou went off with hardly a hitch yesterday. Both men carefully avoided backing the other into a corner on issues that divide...
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Memorial Day 2009: Dueling Visions of America
Memorial Day is, or at least ought to be, about the sacrifices Americans have made, which it generally is, but also about what those whose lives were taken died for (which it is less often). Granted,...
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An Israeli Immodest Proposal
Through Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon, the Likud government of Benjamin Netanyahou has announced what it thinks of President Obama’s two-state solution to the Palestine question: No thanks! In...
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Obama and Afghanistan: Damned If He Does…
Within the next several days, President Obama will likely announce his decision regarding American strategy in Afghanistan. He has kept his counsel close to the vest on this, and I have no idea good...
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Barack Obama and the Ghost of LBJ
President Obama has apparently reached his decision on Afghanistan, which he will explain to the public on Tuesday night. If early leaks intended to get us more used to–and presumably comfortable...
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Obama’s Wing and a Prayer
On Tuesday night, President Obama announced his new “strategy” for Afghanistan. It held few surprises, just disappointments. The President’s rhetoric soared, as usual. The content did not. Instead, he...
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Tempering Afghan Optimism
The recent announcements and statements of support for President Obama’s “surge” in Afghanistan have left me a bit confused, and I wonder if readers can help me out here. Something just does not...
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U.S. Humanitarian Activism: Libya and Syria
The remaining hot spots from the Arab Spring are in Libya and Syria. In both cases, popular uprisings erupted against tyrannical governments inspired at least patrially by the Arab Spring events that...
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If Israel Attacks Iran, Options Get Worse!
Scenarios about the growing possibility that Israel will attack Iran in was would very likely be a feckless attempt to destroy the Iranian nuclear weapons program and more or less permanently to...
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