Category Archives: foreign affairs
Haiti’s deeper tragedy
President Barack Obama called the quake “especially cruel and incomprehensible.” He would be closer to the truth if he had said that the Haitian political and economic climate that make Haitians helpless in the face of natural disasters are “especially cruel and incomprehensible.” Continue reading
Obama’s uncertain trumpet call to battle
We shall fight in the air, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we shall fight in the hills — for 18 months. Then we start packing for home. Continue reading
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Obama’s envelopes
Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. “Niki, I’m dying. Don’t have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble.” A few years later, first crisis. Khrushchev opens envelope 1: “Blame everything on me. Uncle Joe.” A few years later, a really big crisis. Opens envelope 2: “Blame everything on me. Again. Good luck, Uncle Joe.” Third crisis. Opens envelope 3: “Prepare three envelopes.” Continue reading
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Tagged afghanistan, bush, charles krauthammer, khrushchev, obama, stalin
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Obama's Foreign Policy Vision Not So New Age
President Obama’s speeches often claim “the time has come” for something, or “the days” of this or that “are over.” It’s as if his presidency has introduced a new epoch. Continue reading
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Tagged foreign policy, iran, north korea, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons
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Obama's French Lesson
When France chides you for appeasement, you know you’re scraping bottom. Continue reading
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Tagged charles krauthammer, foreign policy, france, iran, nuclear weapons, obama, sarkozy
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Surrendering sovereignty
While all eyes were on the rantings of Ahmadinejad at the United Nations, the United States — under President Barack Obama — was surrendering its economic sovereignty at the G-20 summit. The result of this conclave, which France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed as “revolutionary,” was that all the nations agreed to coordinate their economic policies and programs and to submit them to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for comment and approval. While the G-20 nations and the IMF are, for now, only going to use “moral suasion” on those nations found not to be in compliance, talk of sanctions looms on the horizon. Continue reading
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Tagged economics, fore, foreign policy, imf, obama, sovereignty
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