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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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O's foreign failures: bad guys refuse to be charmed
Most Americans have noticed that President Obama’s economic policies aren’t getting the job done. Fewer, however, realize that the administration’s foreign policies are flagging after just six months in the White House, too. Continue reading
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Speak Softly and Carry a Big Teleprompter
What does a nuclear madman have to do to get America’s attention? On Memorial Day, the North Koreans detonated “an underground atomic device many times more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” as my old colleagues at the Irish Times put it. You’d think that’d rate something higher than “World News In Brief,” see foot of page 37. But instead Washington was consumed by the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, who apparently has a “compelling personal story.” Continue reading
North Korea Throws Down Missile Gauntlet
North Korea’s defiance represents the first foreign policy test of whether the Obama Administration’s actions will match its strong rhetoric. Continue reading
