Brzezinski Endorses Obama; Calls Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy “Very Conventional”

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There are aspects of both Barack Obama‘s and Hillary Clinton‘s national security and foreign policy strategies that seriously concern me. I feel much more pull towards the kind of national security contours of a Chuck Hagel — but he has not announced and does not yet appear to be running.

Pace May Nudge Bush on Troop Cut

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Not to be beaten by Senator John Warner who called last night for the beginning of modest troop withdrawals from Iraq, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is reportedly going to urge President Bush to cut troop levels next year in Iraq by half. That would move the level deployed to roughly 80,000.

US-Cuba Relations Emerges as Presidential Issue

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At the first Democratic presidential primary debates, Bill Richardson was asked about what he’d do with regards to Cuba, and he proceeded to spend much of his time answering not that question but rather an earlier question about how each of the potential presidents would react in case of another terrorist act.

Which Shakespeare Characters Do Bush and Cheney Most Resemble?

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(Doesn’t Cheney just seem so. . .Richard the Third?) I just came by this interesting interview with former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director and evolving neoconservative thinker Ken Adelman.