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Kerry: An American Seeking Solutions for the Quagmires Abroad and Those who...
Reports are coming in from Secretary John Kerry’s trip and from Washington that the Obama administration is starting a process of “adjustment” for its second term foreign and security policies to adapt...
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Sequester and National Security: Will We Ever Learn?
Battleships and other assets at sea, Air Force planes overseas, Marines on land and sea, and not least, diplomats abroad, many in dangerous posts, trying to ensure peace and security, American...
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Turkey and U.S. National Security
The combined weight and importance of Turkey’s political, military, economic and geo-strategic circumstances in the consideration of American national security interests require the most serious...
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Europe Again – More Dysfunction in Both UK and Italy
There are signs again that Europe is off track with both the anti-European stance by Prime Minister David Cameron and his Euro-skeptics and the politics in a number of member states, not least in...
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Heritage Foundation – More Nonsense on Obama’s Foreign Policy
The Heritage Foundation is holding in mid-March a meeting with the improbably, but typical title “U.S. Foreign Policy Adrift.” You can easily guess what that is all about and the following quote from...
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A MUST: REVIVING THE PAST
There is a common saying, so common that it is broadly accepted as a valid reason for burying the past and, in the process, excusing past leaders and decision-makers responsible for actions that not...
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President Obama’s Middle East Visit: Why Is It So Opposed By Those Who Do Not...
I have been reading a flood of blogs, op-eds, articles, and comments from so-called experts that the President should not visit Israel or the Middle East, and furthermore should not even attempt to...
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Major US Foreign Policy Breakthrough
Created on: March 22, 2013 It has been announced on major European TV broadcasts, that by the instigation of President Barack Obama, Israel at the highest level has issued an apology, or...
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Obama’s Middle East Trip – Accomplishments and Next Steps
First, I want to agree with my colleague blogger Alan Berlind on the key accomplishment by Obama in getting the Israelis and the Turks back into the “game.” As he notes, they are key actors in this...
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NOTHING IS EASY: ISRAEL, TURKEY, RUSSIA, CYPRUS, THE EU (AND US NATIONAL...
The heralded and most welcome rapprochement between American friends and allies Turkey and Israel will need, as is normal, some time before it bears fruit. As reported from Ankara by the Associated...
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Nuclear Madness: Korea and Iran and “Tipping Point”
Headlines are everywhere, pundits shouting “danger” and editorial writers highlighting dangers, yet few have provided any clear action or policies that look productive in changing the trajectory of the...
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LET’S STOP JOKING ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY
We can hope the reporting was just an April Fools joke, but is there really a possibility that President Obama is considering sending Caroline Kennedy as American Ambassador to Japan? Has she had...
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More On North Korea – More Kabuki or Is it Serious?
The on going, made for TV, North Korean crisis rattles on and there are now two main camps of thought. One is that Kim Jong-un is mostly “blister and threat,” but seeks some advantage from the allies...
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DIPLOMACY AND NATIONAL SECURITY
A must read for anyone interested in national security is an opinion piece published in The Washington Post of April 11, 2013 and written by the presidents of the American Foreign Service...
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Syria : What Should We Be Doing Now?
As we have argued earlier, there is an urgent and vital need for the “Friends of Syria” and our allies in the region to start thinking of how to contain the sectarian violence that is already taking...
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America’s Role in Making Peace in the Middle East
Last week at a Carnegie Endowment meeting, a wise retired career Ambassador Edward P Djerejian discussed the Baker Institute at Rice University report, “Re-Engaging the Israelis and Palestinians: Why...
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Science, Technology, and Social Science Research Underpins American...
As everyone knows the sequester has been a disaster for American growth, its modernization, and its built and social infrastructure. It has killed needed jobs. It has made the poor poorer, and it has...
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Strange New Turns. Where are We Going Now on Syria? The Russian Connection,...
Quotes: Secretary Kerry with President Putin in Moscow May 7, 2013: “And Mr. President, as you know better than anybody, there are enormous challenges today that require the same level of cooperation,...
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W(H)ITHER THE WEST?
The aptly labeled “euro crisis” has led to a good deal of speculation about the future of the common currency, the European Union and, as if to put to rest any doubt that U.S. national security...
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The Perversity of Right Wing Babble and Mendacity!
Doing Bad by Doing Good and Why Humanitarian Action Fails is a book by Christopher J. Coyne, an economics professor at George Mason University, and touted by the right wing Cato Institute. Cato is...
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