January 29, 2008 – 03:04 pm
From the NY Times’ The End of Hegemony: “The more we appreciate the differences among the American, European and Chinese worldviews, the more we will see the planetary stakes of the new global game. Previous eras of balance of power have been among European powers sharing a common culture. The cold war, too, was not [...]
August 28, 2007 – 10:48 am
From After Iraq: Why Conceding Defeat Would Be Good for American Foriegn Policy: “On the home front, too, withdrawal is the correct and necessary course. According to a recent report by the Congressional Research Service, the cost of the Iraq war now totals more than $10 billion per month. While devoting such a massive chunk [...]
August 28, 2007 – 10:05 am
From Salon.com’s The waning power of the War Myth: “For Bush, Vietnam’s real relevance to Iraq isn’t the early withdrawal issue — it’s the ’stab in the back.’ The ’stab in the back’ holds that America was only defeated in Vietnam because we lost the will to fight. And those who sapped our will, those [...]
August 16, 2007 – 12:33 pm
From an essay by Rudy Giuliani in Foreign Affairs, entitled, Toward a Realistic Peace: “The next U.S. president will face three key foreign policy challenges: setting a course for victory in the terrorists’ war on global order, strengthening the international system the terrorists seek to destroy, and extending the system’s benefits. With a stronger defense, [...]
October 4, 2006 – 01:14 pm
In The Dream-Killer, Matthew Yglesias writes, “Liberals, take note: War with Iran is a genuine possibility, and it would destroy the prospects of progressive foreign policy reform for years to come.”
While doing some research for a history paper tonight, I came across this political term: Suzerainty. According to Wikipedia, a suzerainty “is a situation in which a region or people is a tributary to a more powerful entity [the suzerain] which allows the tributary some limited domestic autonomy but controls its foreign affairs.” I came [...]
March 21, 2006 – 03:52 pm
I was just watching the president’s press conference today (I love streaming video and I love C-Span), and he said something that caught my ears, especially in light of the book I started reading yesterday.
Speaking about the resentment that has bubbled up from the subterranean layers of Middle Eastern society and out into the world [...]
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