Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
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Just back from Abu Dhabi where I met all sorts of interesting folks, discussing national security and foreign policy issues amidst the backdrop of the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
By Steve Clemons
Ari Shapiro on Obama’s Shifting Foreign Policy Attention
National Public Radio’s Ari Shapiro did a great piece this morning taking a look at the traditional and new in President Obama’s foreign policy attentions.
Note to Hillary Clinton: Time to Do Israel/Palestine the DoD Way
Hillary Clinton just met with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and here is the pro forma “read out” of the meeting which the State Department distributed: Prime Minister Netanyahu and Secretary Clinton had a good discussion today, with a friendly and productive exchange of views on both sides.
George W, Michael Moore & Osama bin Laden?
The publicists of George W. Bush‘s memoir, Decision Points, have not put me on their distro list so I don’t yet have the book.
Pic of the Day: Samurai Pooch
This was sent in by a TWN reader in Japan. It just kind of sticks with you. This dog is not my kind of dog — and I’m really not into the whole samurai scene. That said, I think that this pup could have his own TV show some day.
On Gay Bullying and DADT: Cindy McCain vs. John McCain
(April 1, 2008 – Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America) Over the years, this blog has expressed admiration for some of the principled issues that John McCain stood by when his Republican Party was off course. He was gay friendly then and had lots of gay staffers in his campaign.
Glenn Beck’s Obsessive Compulsive Soros Twitch
Yesterday evening, I watched Glenn Beck’s ‘defamercial‘ on George Soros. There is already much commentary out there — Michael Tomasky’s being among the best — that knocks back the slime, slurs, and defamation of Soros by Fox and Beck. I encourage you to watch the show, if one can call it that.
Walt’s Brilliant Take Down of the Bush Presidency Whitewash
Harvard University’s big think realist and Foreign Policy blogger Stephen Walt has published a brilliant take-down of George W. Bush’s just-released-today memoir, Decision Points.
Air Force One Off Into the Smog
I just caught AFP correspondent Stephen Collinson’s pool report from India as President Obama wraps up his trip there. Here is the full, short report. . .but catch the last line on Air Force One taxiing off into the smog. Pool Report # 1, Nov, 9 — New Delhi Motorcade rolled at 8.
The View from My Window
(click image for larger version) I am up north of New York City today where it’s rainy, windy, and beautiful. Thanks to the hospitality of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, I’ll be staying at the Pocantico Conference Center which is the former coach and horse barn for Kykuit, the estate of John D. Rockefeller.