It’s tough being a Republican multilateralist, but in my view, World Bank President Robert Zoellick is pulling it off. Bob Davis at the Wall Street Journal seems to agree. Today, is Zoellick’s 100th day since succeeding his embattled predecessor and now AEI Visiting Scholar Paul Wolfowitz.
(Senator Gary Hart and Steve Clemons at Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley‘s official residence in Annapolis) During October and November, Washington College’s C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience will host five former and current U.S. Senators in a series called “A Bipartisan Conversation on Politics and History.
Later today (Wednesday), an interesting letter that I will post at 2 pm will be sent to President Bush outlining key requirements necessary to secure any real success in the November Israel-Palestine Peace Summit that President Bush and Condoleezza Rice will orchestrate in Annapolis.
While former Ambassador John Bolton aided and abetted neo-con inspired foreign policy efforts while serving in the administration, as Steve Clemons has pointed out in the past Bolton is mistakenly lumped into the tribe of neo-conservatives.
I was with Bill Kristol and much of the rest of the world on the legitimacy and crucial need to invade Afghanistan and to crush al Qaeda.
James Fallows crossed swords with Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt earlier this week in a short essay charghing Hiatt and his co-editors with recklessness in their reporting both about China recently and about Iraq before the invasion.
Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish has a neat feature on his blog where he features photos taken by his readers and sent to him. He selects his favorite and titles it “The View From Your Window.
Matt Stoller, one of the most significant emerging leaders of the new political left in this country, has just written a fascinating essay that I think is a real breakthrough in his thinking and hopefully in the strategic thinking of the netroots crowd in general. Stoller’s piece is smart Trotsky.
The pups haven’t said hello to their TWN fans lately and wanted to say howdy, though they are pretty tuckered in this shot.