Yesterday, President Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs and National Security Council Director for Latin America Dan Restrepo unveiled the administration’s pre-Summit of the Americas opening move on US-Cuba relations. In the package, travel and remittance restrictions on Cuban-Americans are completely waived.
Big announcement made today via White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs and National Security Council Latin America Director Dan Restrepo on the new parameters of America’s “Cuba Policy.” So. . .let’s get the easy part of this comment out of the way. Applause, applause, applause. . .
Remember. . .this exchange I had with Center for Security Policy President and leading neocon force in Washington Frank Gaffney was done for charity to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society — probably the only thing that Frank Gaffney and I basically agree on.
Latin America policy uber diva Julia Sweig chaired a news-making gathering at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington yesterday morning. It was excellent, and the CFR has audio of the entire event here.
The New York Times and Bloggingheads ran this fascinating short clip of New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force Director Daniel Levy and Nuh Yilmaz, a Washington staff member of the Turkey-based SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research. (The longer exchange is embedded above).
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Here is the clip from my chat with Keith Olbermann of MSNBC’s Countdown last night. I thought it was a very good exchange — though I was more long-winded than usual (. . .I know, that’s not such an unusual thing).
I will be discussing with Keith Olbermann tonight on MSNBC’s Countdown Barack Obama’s foreign policy scorecard after a pretty staggering week for him in Europe, Turkey, and as of today, Iraq.
I just received a powerpoint from a Naval War College instructor that I think captures rather well one informed person’s perceptions of the Obama administration’s course on defense allocations. It was prepared by Professor Tom Fedyszyn.
Seven U.S. Congressmen are in Havana and met with Cuban President Raul Castro among other leading Cuban politicians. What I found most interesting in the Associated Press report on their trip was a comment made by Representative Mel Watt about something he had read of Fidel Castro’s.
(photo credit: Jon-Christopher Bua) Susan Eisenhower and I were interviewed outdoors today atop a building overlooking the Capitol by Sky News on the subject of Obama’s trip to the London G-20 Summit, the EU Summit and the NATO Summit — followed by a significant trip to Turkey.
