Behind the BP disaster, Israel’s raid on an aid convoy of ships is the other big story of the moment. I don’t share the view of many that this was a great use of force on Israel’s part. It seems like they overplayed their hand from a P.R. standpoint, even if some of the people [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
Israel’s Raid
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gaza Strip, Israel, Turkey on 7 Jun 2010 | 3 Comments »
Obama’s Deepening Sense of Reality
Posted in foreign policy, obama, Politics, tagged Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Palestine on 1 Jan 2009 | 1 Comment »
David Frum has a good piece on how Obama’s convoluted rhetoric–the classic politician’s trick of trying to make everyone happy–will soon crash into reality in the Obama administration. Consider the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During the campaign, Obama like most U.S. politicians expressed the usual loyalty to Israel. But he also suggested he’d be more hands on [...]
Hillary’s Foreign Policy
Posted in Election, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, tagged al qaeda, Anti-Terrorism, China, Counter-Terrorism, Foreign Affiars, foreign policy, George Bush, GWB, Hillary Clinton, Idealism, Iran, Iraq, iraq war, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Kissinger, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, obama, President Clinton, realism, Russia, Terrorism on 21 Oct 2007 | 10 Comments »
If Obama’s foreign policy is sometimes incoherent, Hillary’s is simply Bush-lite. Her recent essay in Foreign Affairs reveals herself as someone who does not depart substantially from the globalist paradigm of Bush and President Clinton, with the main difference being her greater faith in “diplomacy.” In a world where many nations’ interests involve knocking America down in [...]
Krauthammer’s Razor
Posted in Armenian Genocide, foreign policy, Pelosi, tagged Armenia, Ethics, foreign policy, Fukuyama, Genocide, History, Idealism, Israel, Krauthammer, National Interest, Neoconservatives, Occam's Razor, Pelosi, Philosophy, Public Interest, realism, ron paul, Turkey, Turks, Washington DC on 19 Oct 2007 | 5 Comments »
While I don’t always agree with him, I do think Charles Krauthammer is one of the most articulate observers of foreign policy and often makes a great deal of sense, particularly when he’s adhering to realism and not getting distracted by his monomania on certain Near Eastern countries. His discussion of why the Democrats persisted [...]
Thomas Friedman: Partisan for an Illusion
Posted in al qaeda, Free Markets, Politics, Tom Friedman, tagged , 9/10, 9/11, 9/12, al qaeda, army, borders, castro, cuba, Davos, Friedman, gitmo, Globalization, Immigration, Iraq, Israel, marines, Media Bias, Military, New York Times on 1 Oct 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In between his paeans to folks in Bangalore wearing Nike shoes and drinking Starbucks coffee while talking on their Samsung phones, Thomas Friedman also likes to write about foreign policy. He infamously declared every six months for three years running that the situation in Iraq was critical and, by implication, that if things did not [...]
Neoconservatism: A Type of Jewish Thought?
Posted in American History, Culture, Immigration, Neoconservatives, tagged Culture, Immigration, Israel, Liberalism, Neoconservatives, Paleoconservative, Volokh on 25 Sep 2007 | 1 Comment »
David Bernstein asks this question at the Volokh website. He raises a number of good points, including probably insoluble ones about whether we can generalize about the ethnic character of any ideology held only by certain members of a group. After all, most American Jews are not neoconservatives, either explicitly or otherwise. But his and others’ [...]
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