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Never mind the brilliant Nobel Peace Prize rhetoric and talk of a “just war,” Barack Obama is a president trying to please too many people at once. This could spell disaster in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
On Afghanistan: Obama Is Treading Water on Decision to Send More Troops to War -
Overall, Obama's speech successfully blended historical context, powerful imagery, and a hard-headed defense of force in a chaotic world. But don't let the Nobel Committee fool you: For a speech about peace, it was as much about war as the president's December 1 announcement on Afghanistan.
Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo: "I Face the World As It Is" -
When it comes to 'rogues' like Iran, Cuba and North Korea, will President Obama be feared and not liked? Or will he be liked and not feared?
A Black Republican's Memo to Democrats on Foreign Policy -
The private conversation with Clinton began and ended on the future of energy--also the subject of President Barack Obama’s address to today’s United Nations summit on climate change. Clinton, hoping to lead the conversation on the global green future, stressed over and over that the politics of environmental action is not a matter of tree-hugging but of dollars and cents.
Bill Clinton Gives Private Interview on Climate Change at Clinton Global Initiative 2009 -
Does Hillary Clinton’s recent visit mean that the U.S. is finally willing to get serious about Congo’s crisis?
What the United States Can Do for the Democratic Republic of Congo -
Hillary Clinton’s tiff with a Congolese student obscures the real American mission in Africa: economic development.
Hillary Clinton's Africa Trip Revives the "Aid v. Trade" Debate -
The Secretary of State got a little froggy after a university student asks her husband's opinion of foreign policy matters...
VIDEO: Hillary Justifies Her Thug in Q&A Session -
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering the nominations of two men to represent the United States in East Asia: Republican Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah, and Democrat John V. Roos of California. But it's the Democratic appointment who is selling out Obama's promise....
Behind the Scenes, Key Obama Fundraisers Get Plum Ambassador Jobs -
Is Jay-Z George Bush? Mark Lynch of SLATE sister site FOREIGN POLICY recently compared hip hop to geostrategy. He parses the recent back-and-forth between rapper Jay-Z and less successful (though still famous) MCs like The Game, Nas, and 50 Cent, using Jay-Z's diss tracks, and his responses to those of others, to form a crudish theory of American global authority.
Hillary Clinton, Jay-Z, The Game and Global Theories of Power -
President Barack Obama and American progressives face down the Israeli right.
Barack Obama, Donna Edwards and American Progressives Face Down the Israeli Right
