In June 2008, I asked Flynt Leverett — former top Middle East analyst and policy practitioner at the CIA, State Department and George W. Bush’s National Security Council — what he thought the next President of the United States should do “on day one” when it came to the nation’s foreign policy priorities.
I spent about 20 minutes with Neal Conan on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” today discussing Israel’s elections and why I’m ready for Netanyahu to lead Israel’s government — either because he’ll find his mature, Nixonian, do-a-deal, makeover side — or because he’ll be so flamboyantly destructive of Israel’s and America’s interests that he’ll finally…
It’s always wise to read up on what one’s supposed global and ideological rivals are writing and thinking. Along this line, for example, I think that reading Karim Sadjadpour‘s fascinating expose on Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is essential reading.
At 3:40 pm EST, I will be chatting live with Neal Conan and his callers on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” regarding the upcoming Israel elections and what impact they might have on the Obama administration’s choices in the Middle East.
Now I know why John Podesta is so unique — and how and why skillful princes use him. . .
Toles (c) 2009 The Washington Post. Used by permission of Universal Press Syndicate. All rights reserved. I think it’s our responsibility as American citizens to critique and applaud government’s moves as we see fit.
This month, the Japan Society of New York, one of America’s leading platforms for Japan-related cultural, political, and economic programming announced that its next president would not be an American citizen — which has always been the case — but would rather be a Japanese citizen, and no ordinary Japanese citizen at that.
This is a guest post for The Washington Note by Tal Schneider, Washington DC Correspondent for the Israel daily newspaper Maariv.
This video above was sent to me this morning in a note from the Washington Post‘s Tom Ricks who said “I particularly like the video they did on one captain’s counterinsurgency campaign.
Peter Berkowitz‘s essay in the latest issue of the Weekly Standard provides good insight into what I think is the strategic irresponsibility of those in Israel’s leadership who think that they can hold steady on a course that justifies failure on an a Palestine-Israel deal using Hamas and Iran as excuses.