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• U.S. Set To Offer Huge Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:25 pm

  Tags: Foreign Policy, Middle East

  Um, hello? Anybody else see some GIANT red flags here? I’d say this is the kind of thing that we need to make sure we notify our Congresspeople that we do not support–at least if they want to claim even a semblance of being strong on terror. NYTimes (reg. req’d.) The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve

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• The Russian Bear Awakes

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:34 pm

  Tags: Foreign Policy

  The title "Sex for the Motherland: Russian Youths Encouraged to Procreate At Camp," certainly grabbed my attention, but the rest of the article by British journalist Edward Lucas made chills go down my spine. The article is fairly lengthy, but well worth the read if you want to know about the rise of fascism in the not-so-former Evil

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• Re: Russian Bear

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:49 pm

  Tags: Foreign Policy

  Diane, I actually think the Russian problem is a bit more complex than can be captured by dropping the f-bomb ("fascism") on the situation. Yes, there is much to be concerned about, particularly from a human rights perspective, but having lived in Ukraine for a year ('93-'94 ... okay, so it was eons ago), I can say with conviction that

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• The More I See You

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:56 am

  Tags: Apologetics Theology, Foreign Policy, Politics Government, Religion Society

  Over at Get Religion, my friend Terry Mattingly has the latest installment in his Sisyphean task of coming up with a definition of "evangelical" that is useful, precise, and faithful to the distinctives of this Christian tradition. Good luck, TMatt. The occasion for this episode of "What's an Evangelical?" is a New York Times

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• 'Comprehensive Strategy' (and a poll)

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:03 pm

  Tags: Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

  in the paradigm of U.S. foreign policy that rejects hegemony whether in its NeoCon robes or something more disguised. On the other hand, merely pulling out of Iraq, which we must do, dealing with the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum, which we must do, and backing off from confrontation with Iran, which we must do, does not mean there will be no

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• Romney, Hezbollah, and healthcare

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:15 pm

  Tags: Mitt Romney, Election 08, Foreign Policy

  group as a model for U.S. policy. This is where being a techno-guy, without any real foreign policy experience, (or ear) begins to matter. There's two parts to this. One, did Romney say what WND reported? And two, is Romney right? The answer is yes, to both. WND didn't misquote Romney. Check the entire clip. It was, oddly enough, a pretty

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• Despite threats, Karzai calls Taliban "defeated'

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:38 pm

  Tags: Foreign Policy

  by Mark Silva CAMP DAVID, Md. While U.S. intelligence speaks of a safe haven'' for al Qaeda in Pakistan, President Bush said today that the United States could bring top al Qaeda to justice'' if authorities had actionable intelligence.'' And, despite the resurgence of the Taliban inside Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai

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• Afghan leader at Camp David, 'work to be done'

  Published: August 5, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Foreign Policy

  He said that -- referring to foreign fighters coming into Afghanistan from Pakistan, he said: "It has increased probably 50 to 60 percent over what it was last year, most of them come across the border through Pakistan, the foreign fighters. Is that your assessment as well? KARZAI: That is our assessment. That is exactly true. That is one of

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• Carroll's Cri de Coeur: Globe Columnist Anguished, and It's All America's Fault

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:21 am

  Tags: Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Israel Palestine, Middle East, James Carroll, Boston Globe, Liberal Angst

  I don't know James Carroll, but if I were a friend or family member I might truly be concerned. His Boston Globe column of this morning, American Disconnection, is a disjointed lament about the state of the world and his feeling of disconnectedness, invoking the anomie of his youth. What makes it interesting for present purposes is the way in

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• Debate's "brightest moment"? Few media note that even while attacking Obama, Romney agreed on substance

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Usa Today, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Mitt Romney, National Security Foreign Policy, Rudy Giuliani

  Obama's (D-IL) recent foreign policy statements: "[I]n one week, he went from saying he's going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies. I mean, he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week." Romney was referring to Obama's statement in an August 1 speech that

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• NBC's Mitchell uncritically aired Romney's "Dr. Strangelove" attack on Obama

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:39 pm

  Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Nbc, Today Show, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Mitt Romney, National Security Foreign Policy, Rudy Giuliani

  Barack Obama for his recent foreign policy statements." Mitchell did not report what those statements were. Nor did she note that during the course of the debate, both Giuliani and Romney acknowledged their agreement with the substance of Obama's "foreign policy statement." ABC's chief Washington correspondent George

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• Fox News Sunday is latest program to call Iraq invasion proponents "critics" of the war

  Published: August 5, 2007, 5:38 pm

  Tags: Chris Wallace, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News Sunday, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  During an August 5 interview on Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday with Brookings Institution scholars Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, authors of a July 30 New York Times op-ed that argued in favor of continuing the Bush administration's Iraq war escalation "at least into 2008," host Chris Wallace introduced O'Hanlon and

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• Conservatives continue to distort Clyburn's remarks to attack Democrats for being "invested in defeat in Iraq"

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:03 pm

  Tags: Cal Thomas, Laura Ingraham, Neal Boortz, Sean Hannity, Abc Radio Networks, Cox Radio Syndication, Talk Radio Network, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Sean Hannity Show, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  Following House Majority Whip James Clyburn's (D-SC) July 30 remarks to Washington Post reporters that if Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, issued a report stating that the military effort in Iraq "is working very, very well at this point; we would be foolish to back away from it," then it would cause "those 47 Blue

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• Ingraham falsely asserted NY Times said "we should not update [FISA] to meet current advances in technology"

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:30 pm

  Tags: Laura Ingraham, Fox Amp Friends, Fox News Channel, Domestic Spying, National Security Foreign Policy

  to improve collection of foreign intelligence in a manner that doesn't compromise civil liberties of U.S. citizens.' " The New York Times reported on August 1 that "Democratic leaders have expressed a new willingness to work with the White House to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to make it easier for the National

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• MSNBC's Carlson claimed Obama "sounds so much like Bush" that "they appear identical"

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:03 pm

  Tags: Tucker Carlson, Msnbc, Tucker, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, National Security Foreign Policy, Terrorism, War In Iraq

  Obama's (D-IL) August 1 foreign policy speech -- in which Obama stated that "[i]f we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and [Pakistani] President [Pervez] Musharraf won't act, we will" -- MSNBC host Tucker Carlson labeled Obama "the former peace candidate" and claimed that Obama "sounds so much like Bush

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