In case there was any doubt, every ocean industry — every single one, including telecom, oil and gas, mining, marine manufacturing, shipping, and fishing — supports U.S. accession to the Law of the Sea Convention.
The debate over McCain’s 100 years comment is still pinging around in my brain. Here is my first interpretation of McCain’s intended meaning when I wrote earlier this week: More important is what McCain actually did mean: that the U.S.
I’ve been pretty quiet on the Law of the Sea front these past few months, but now that’s over. The clock is ticking. The “quiet strategy” has achieved as much as it is going to. It’s time for an all out push — there’s simply too much at stake to let it go.
I’m assuming most TWN readers have seen this before: Iraq is and will continue to be about 90 percent of the foreign policy conversation in this campaign (still not happy about that). And right now, much of the Iraq debate has revolved around redeployment details: who, how many, how fast, etc.
Having attended the launch for Matt Yglesias’s new book on foreign policy on Friday, I might have to break a rule of mine. I might have to read a book whose thesis I fundamentally agree with. I made that rule after reading Jared Diamond’s Collapse a few years ago.
Riddle me this: why is coal “the dirtiest fuel on earth” when Europe burns it but a potential global warming and “energy independence” solution here at home? Elisabeth Rosenthal writes in the New York Times: “At a time when the world’s top climate experts agree that carbon emissions must be rapidly reduced to hold down…
This picture, which found its way into my inbox today, is a pretty good reflection of the trajectory of U.S. versus Russian influence at the moment. Don’t get it? Look closely — there’s a second Head of State in the background.
Frank Luntz comments on the thread below regarding his appearance at USUN. And anyone who takes the time to comment on a post concerning him or her deserves some front page attention in my book. This is Frank Luntz here.
The U.S. Mission to the United Nations is hosting a briefing on the 2008 presidential elections later this week. The three speakers are Former Rep. David Bonior from the Edwards campaign, Former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey from the Romney campaign, and Frank Luntz.
This quote from Barack Obama’s speech today caught my attention: Given my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough.