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Power Line (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration secured China's cooperation in dealing with Iran by holding out the specter of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. According to the Post, two senior officials on the National Security Council - Jeffrey Bader and the ubiquitous Dennis Ross - told China that if it did not help the U.S. on the issue of Iranian nukes, Israel might well...
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Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The Illinois Republican Party has an inquiring mind today. Four Key Questions for Alexi Giannoulias 1) Alexi, were you briefed by the National Security Council on the Thomson/Gitmo plan or did you exaggerate? Background: On Friday, Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias told WLS 890’s Don Wade and Roma Show he "had a chance to talk to the National Security Council folks" about...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
From Jake Tapper yesterday: Asked how President Obama pressed the issue of human rights, {Jeffrey Bader, Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council] told ABC News that the US is most "persuasive if we have our own house in order." President Obama's presidential order to close the detainee center at Guantanamo Bay is an example of how he is working hard "to correct...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
On Jonah's point , I would just add that Obama has been playing this game from the first, and he gave the game away by overruling Holder when the blowback got bad over DOJ's effort to disclose classified photos of prisoner abuse. (See here and here .) On that, note that Holder plays the same game -- he (and Obama) claimed that they were simply complying with court orders. As I've explained a few times,...
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National Review Online (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
T he watchwords for next week’s meeting between President Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, are “balanced” and “sustainable” when it comes to economic relations between the U.S. and the PRC. Senior administration officials are already laying the groundwork. On November 6, Deputy Secretary of State James Feinberg told a gathering in Washington, D.C., that Asia...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
You could get whiplash watching the Afghanistan debate underway within the Obama administration. One day, it looks like the president has decided to send the majority of the additional troops requested by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and then the next day we are told that there is yet another meeting of the National Security Council to discuss new options. The administration is so desperate to show that...
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National Review Online (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
W hile in Russia for meetings with his counterpart Dmitry Medvedev last July, Pres. Barack Obama sought to highlight the importance of democracy. Speaking at Moscow’s New Economic School, he returned to the subject, noting that freedom of speech, competitive elections, and a free media ensure that societies improve. Meanwhile, Medvedev declined to attend a Civil Society Summit with Obama, sending...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu left the White House after a one-hour and 40-minute meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama Monday night without speaking to reporters -- a rare occurrence. The meeting had been grudgingly scheduled early Sunday morning by the White House just a few hours before Netanyahu was to leave for the U.S. to speak at the 2009 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of...
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Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Armaros wrote, "This is it. As the evidence grew about Iran building bombs and warheads, Obama s team must have shown divisions. Thus he removes the eyes who saw, Ross,(who is a Clintonian) and replaces him with an Iran regime lobbyist. The Iran lobby, the NIAC is a regime presence within the USA. Led by a famous Bzeszinsky endorsed Iranian antisemite who blames Israel for Iran-US tensions and...
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Dissecting Leftism (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
America needs some true Realpolitik Israel's edge in hi-tech makes it an essential ally; China is a potential friend It is easy to confuse "realism" with a widely shared delusion. In the parlance of American foreign policy, "realism" means accepting a howling lie if it is accepted by a large enough number of people. The "realists" during the Ronald Reagan administration...
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Atlantic Review (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
When he was a senator, Barack Obama was criticized for failing to convene a single policy meeting of the Senate European subcommittee, of which he was chairman. In January 2008 I wrote the post: Barack Obama's Lack of Real Interest in Transatlantic Cooperation Now, one year after his election, Obama is very popular in Europe, especially in Western Europe, even though he "has done much less for...
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YID With LID (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Soon after Former President Zelaya was deposed for trying to go around his country's constitution, Our Potus "Nobel Peace Prize winner" took a position against democracy, contra to the Honduras Constitution and on the wrong side of history. “America supports now the restoration of the democratically-elected President of Honduras, even though he has strongly opposed American policies,”...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The next round of negotiations with the Iranians will take place on Monday in Vienna. It will be interesting to see if the same Iranians show up, or if the mullahs are treating this as a tag team match. Either way, we can expect them to insult us and declare victory. Ayatollah Jannati, the effective supreme leader with Khamenei incapacitated, gave a public account (at his Friday sermon) of his debrief...
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SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Views on Afghanistan Buildup Bring Clinton and Gates Together in an Alliance - Mark Landler and Thom Shanker, New York Times. The last time the Obama administration arrived at a moment of truth in the debate over what to do about Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert M. Gates delivered a one-two punch in favor of a more ambitious approach. Now, as President Obama leads yet another debate on...
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fivethirtyeight (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Moscow today to begin three days of talks with high level Russian officials including President Medvedev and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. On the second leg of a 5-day, tour through the EU and Russia, Clinton is coming off a whirlwind summer of diplomacy, largely in the background of the Obama administration's foreign policy. Many issues crowd the...
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