By Steve Clemons

Jonathan Guyer, who blogs at Mideast by Midwest, is the official toonist for The Washington Note.

This is a guest note by Parag Khanna, a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The Second World: How Emerging Powers are Redefining Global Competition in the 21st Century (Random House, 2009).

The defining personality of the George W. Bush administration was his Vice President, Dick Cheney. And the man who enabled Cheney and built out the architecture of “the dark side” of a nightmarish purgatory beyond American or international law was his chief of staff David Addington.

I just did this interesting interview with media investor Leo Hindery who also chairs the Economic Growth/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation. Hindery spoke yesterday at a forum sponsored by the Center for American Progress and Apollo Alliance titled “”Picking a Winner: How to Make the U.S.

This is a guest note by journalist and Middle East and Islamic issues expert Nir Rosen. On Sunday, February 28th the New York Times published an outrageous oped by Efraim Karsh full of lies, distortions and mistakes. Karsh describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an urgent foreign policy matter for the United States.

I am not a single issue guy — and despite my differences with Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) on health care and his general applause for the next and next next wars America chooses, he did a great thing by introducing legislation today to repeal the embedded bigotry in our national military forces of Don’t Ask…

Politico‘s Ben Smith has one of those “Wow, I can’t believe this” scoops. The only problem is that I actually can believe it. I just don’t want to.

(An anti-gay, anti-Dem mailer from 2004 election that TWN first publicized) My occasional blogging heads partner David Frum may have coined the “Axis of Evil” for George Bush to have an easy way to denigrate Iran, Iraq and North Korea — and thus undermining the possibility of a strategic pivot then in US-Iran relations, but…

Former Washington Post “White House Watch” maven and current DC Huffington Post Bureau Chief Dan Froomkin powerfully deconstructs and pops the Rahm Emanuel bubble that the Washington Post has been puffing up. The first puff came in a widely read Dana Milbank column.

I took this pic on my increasingly useful iPhone on Amelia Island, outside of Jacksonville, Florida. I’m here with a very interesting bunch of folks discussing a framework for policy alternatives and different narratives that could be useful in changing the course of America’s Afghanistan policy. More later.