Foreign Policy
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- An Epidemic of Not Watching
- Must-Reads of the Week: The Obama 20-somethings, Graham's Cojones, Fannie/Freddie, Naive Conspiracy Theorists, Saban, Obama=Socialism, Political Imitations, Underdogs, Lost!, and Julián Castro
- Must-Reads of the Week: American Power, Inequality, 1 Billion Heartbeats, Hacking Life, Anthora Cups, Structural Deficit, Financial Doomsedays and Crises, China, the Tea Party's Views on Immigration, and Lady Gaga
- Must-Reads of the Week: Obama's Accomplishments and Diplomatic Brand, Facebook, Epistemic Closure, Financial Reform, Our Long-Term Fiscal Crisis and Problem-Solving Capacity, and Mike Allen
- The Beijing Consensus
- Nuclear Policy in an Age of Terrorism and Madmen
- The Efficacy of Drone Attacks
- Must-Reads of the Week: Google/China, Liberal American Exceptionalism, The Failed War on Drugs, Defending the Individual Mandate, Counter Counter-Insurgency, Idiocrats, and Men Did It!
- Must-Reads of the Week: China's distortionary exchange rate policy, Mario Savio, David Brooks, Ezra Klein, & Dana Priest's The Mission
- Must-Reads of the Week: A history lesson, Reconciling Chart, Theism, Starbucks, the New Global Middle Class, the Beijing Consensus, and the Traitorous Supreme Court
- Must-Reads During This Week: Perfect Storm for Health Reform, Making Controversy, Cyberwar, Limiting Government, Liz Cheney's Al Qaeda Connection, George Will, and the Coffee Party
- Obama's Dramatic Showdown Leads to Climate Deal
- Kashkari, 2009's Ideas, Richard Milhouse Obama, Frum!, Chinese-American Trade Imbalance, Obama's Nobel, and Charborg
- The Constantly Invoked Hitler-Chamberlain-Churchill Fallacy
- Health Care Graphs, Cold War Deer, Evaluating Hillary, An Armey of Tea Baggers, and Rubio
- Karzai gave in because he knew Obama was serious while Bush had not been
- An Empire or a Just Society?
- The Virtue in Muddling Through in Afghanistan
- Must-Reads: Uighurs, Gay in Middle School, Vidal, Larison, the Public Option, and the End of Pax Americana
- Must Reads of the Past Two Weeks! (Extended Edition): J Street, NPH, Liberalism, Topless, Colombian Hippos, Grassroots, 1990s Reunion, Insuring Illegals, and the Iranian Time Bomb
- Military Envy
- Did Kim Jong Il Apologize for Calling Hillary A "Funny Lady"?
- Sympathizing with AIG, Peace with Islamists, Senator Al Franken, Jay-Z, the Newest Lost Generation, and the Future of Journalism
- McNamara, Cuomo, Bearing Witness, Iran's Bomb, Sri Lanken Victories, and Historical Dignity
- Henry Kissinger on Obama
- Defending American Empire
- Explaining Obama's "Double Standard" Regarding Iran and Honduras
- What the Iranian Green Revoltion Has Accomplished
- Michael Jackson's Gift to the Ayatollah Khamenei
- A "Smart" Girl's Partisanly-Selective Indignation
- The Rule of Law in Honduras
- A Positive Indicator in Iran?
- The Obama Doctrine
- John McCain's Hip-Shooting Onanism
- It Will Be a Revolution
- A Counterbalancing Bloc
- Generation Green: Connecting the Pakistani Lawyers Movement to the Iranian Green Revolution
- A New Phase in the Culture War: National Security
- Biden Says Talks With Iran To Go Forward
- Iran's Green "Revolution"
- Khamenei, Palestinian Classical Music, Waterboarding Pro-Life Terrorists, and the Renegade Boy Guru
- "We must say openly the things we hold in our hearts."
- The Cairo Rapprochement
- Variations on a Theme
- Facebook Diplomacy (cont.)
- Stephen Walt's Insights
- Facebook Diplomacy
- How Pakistan Is Like AIG
- Pakistan: The Edge of the Abyss
- Homo Blogicus, Pup, Pakistan, Torture, Marijuana, and the Revenge of Geography
- Right-wingers Obsessed About Obama's "Apology Tour"
- Tweeting Revolution
- Outlasting America in Afghanistan
- Stimulus and Stability (cont.)
- Signs of Hope: Iran
- The Price of Prohibition I: Propping Up The Mexican Cartels
- Sarkozy: Right on nothing, prescient on everything
- The Iran-Iraq Balance
- The Opposite of Counterinsurgency
- The Primal Politics of Pakistan
- Colin Gray on China, Terrorism, and Proliferation
- The Unintended Consequences of a War on Drugs
- Funding Both Sides of Mexico's Drug War
- Clear-eyed Engagement
- Signs of the Coming Upheaval
- Pakistan: The Nexus
- The Story That Tells You Everything You Need To Know About US-Pakistan Relations
- Dubya's China Legacy
- Charles Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire, and Somalia
- The War on Drugs is Making Us Less Safe: Mexico
- An Age of Upheaval? - Instability, Legitimacy, and the Economic Crisis
- Iran's Strategic Realignment
- Post-Cold War Triumphalism
- Afpak & Iran
- The Populist Party Blog
- Why Liberals Must Embrace the Wars Against Terrorism
- Europe's Impotence
- Israel and Hamas
- Hypocrisy or Unknown Principles
- These Enemies of Civilization
- An Ambitious Presidency
- Like Small Children
- Middle-Class Murmers
- Why Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Secretary of State
- What's Next: Secretaries of State and Defense
- Your Excuse for Doing Less Than You Could
- The Scowcroft Conspiracy
- A Warning to John McCain
- A Prophecy in the Guardian
- "You were wrong."
- Fun Fact About John McCain #10: A Third Bush Term
- SmearedbytheTruth
- Yglesias: Bush pressured Maliki to revise the withdrawl date to bail out McCain
- Fun Fact About McCain #3: Temper Tantrum in Nicaragua
- McCain v. Spain
- Did Obama violate the Logan Act?
- Neoconservatives, gleeful, see Palin as "a blank page"
- The Lesson We Did Not Learn from 9/11
- A Country Unlike Any Other
- "We are all Georgians!": Fantasy as Foreign Policy
- Will Bin Laden Endorse McCain?
- Selling Tom Friedman
- 11 Reasons to Donate to Barack Obama Tonight
- Vision versus Compromise
- Bush-McCain Refuses to Make Tough Foreign Policy Choices
- "A Clear and Present Danger to the Security of the West"
- Why I Am Still Confident About Obama's Campaign
- Why I Support Obama
- A Timeline of the Russian-Georgian War
- A President for Our Dangerous Times
- Obama World Tour Round-up
- Quote of the Day
- Explaining Away McCain's Foreign Policy Gaffes
- A World That Stands As One
- Omar al-Bashir kills a dove
- Setting America Up to Fail
- Iraq Leader Maliki Supports Obama's Withdrawal Plans
- A Liberal Defends George W. Bush's Legacy
- Berlin Loves Obama
- Quote of the Day
- A Warning from Secretary Gates: "Our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America" if we strike Iran.
- A Night With Chuck Hagel
- Bush to Attack Iran as an October Surprise?
- If that's what you believe, Mr. McCain, you'll have to draft me.
- A Neo-Empire in the Middle East
- America: Kind of Like Spider-man
- Digg Lies!
- Obama versus McCain on Iraq
- The ultimate feelgood war
- Questions about McCain's Foreign Policy
- Evaluating McCain's 'realistic idealism'
- It's all Condi' fault
- Lieberman's selective indignation
- McCain: Puppies for everyone!
- The curmudgeonly conservative columnist questions McCain
- Generation Faithful
- Obama explains Hamas's "endorsement"
- A Moderate Reputation: Explaining McCain's Changes of Heart
- Killing the United Nations
- The Power of Story: 9/11 and the Averted Attack
- Middle East Mayhem
- Pope Endorses Barack Obama in UN Speech
- Andrew Sullivan nails it.
- Is Joe Lieberman acting as a "stealth Democrat"?
- Top McCain aide: Thanks for softening Obama up for us.
- A Hypothetical Question of Judgment
- Man, there's a country where they have great tactics to prevent suicide bombings
- Geldof and Bush
- "Nonesense on Stilts"
- The Jihad Bunny
- The Obamanauts
- The Coming Financial Pandemic
- Imagine Vladmir Putin...
- I Don't Like Waterboarding
- The Rebranding of America: Barack Obama
- Delayed Results
- How does Chechyna love thee?
- One Pakistan Story
- Like Hope, But Different
- A Sure Losing Strategy
- The next time...
- David Brooks: Bush Administration Thinks Hillary Will Protect Their Legacy
- Hillary Clinton lies about Obama
- The Petty Paul (Krugman)
- Why I write this blog
- Two articles to mull over
- The Iraq Thing
- Staving off disaster in Pakistan
- Did our foreign policy cause 9/11?
- Tom Friedman, Car Salesman
- And I am Caesar.
- Vince Flynn & The Preemptive Surrender of American Values
- Eschewing politics
- Islamist Terrorism as "a generational phenomenon"
- The Real Obama
- John Laughland, loon
- Obama v. Giuliani
- "I cannot allow this country to commit suicide."
- What Rights Should We Give Terrorists?
- Obama on Iran
- Live-blogging the MSNBC Debate...
- Barack Obama on Iraq
- "We didn't start the fire..."
- A Libertarian Perspective on Clinton
- Terrorist Attack on Bhutto
- Under the Weather..
- Columbus Day
- Pakistani Power Politics
- Two Methods of Interrogation
- The Choice
- Rationalizing inhumanity
- Ahmadinejad