CNN Comment: Obama’s ‘Unclenched Fist’ Won the Prize
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Below follows the lead from a piece I just wrote for CNN on Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Category: General
Flynt Leverett and Dan Drezner “Debate” Whether A Grand Bargain With Iran Is Possible
Last week, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett penned a New York Times op-ed advocating for a robust effort to achieve a “grand bargain” with the Iranians, rather than continuing down the Bush-Obama path of “containment.
Obama Wins Nobel!
Forget the Chicago Olympics foul up. Barack Obama has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — the first sitting US President to win the Prize since Woodrow Wilson.
Former Sec of State George Shultz says QUOTE ME: End the US-Cuba Embargo. End the Travel Ban.
Former Reagan Administration Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of State George Shultz thinks that the US embargo against Cuba should “simply be lifted.
Sensible Foreign Policy Players Move UP: David Huebner to New Zealand; Christian Brose to McCain Staff
(photo: Matthew Waxman, Walter Pincus, Dana Priest, and Christian Brose; photo credit: Steve Clemons) My good friend and occasional intellectual jousting mate, Christian Brose, is leaving Foreign Policy magazine and becoming Senator John McCain‘s senior foreign policy adviser.
Robert Kaplan on the Regional Dimensions of Afghanistan
Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow Robert Kaplan has an excellent op-ed in today’s New York Times that offers a balanced assessment of the regional and great power dimensions of the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan.
Imposing More Sanctions On Iran Will Not Work
(Photo Credit: White House) Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are insisting that if only Congress could dream up better and more effective sanctions to squeeze Iran and get Russia and China to go along, then the Iranian nuclear problem would go away. This is nonsense.
BIG Af-Pak Debate in White House and New York Today
Today, Barack Obama is spending nearly all of his day in briefings related to Afghanistan and Pakistan. While many Members of Congress are invited to the briefings, you and I are not.
Guest Post by Riz Khan: For the Greater Good. . .
(Riz Khan anchors the Riz Khan Show on Al Jazeera English. This “Note” is part of a series of posts that personalities from Al Jazeera have been sharing with readers of The Washington Note.) New York is going into rehab – to use an increasingly popular term.
Palestine Women’s Project: Cherie Blair and Hani Masri
Cherie Blair, Founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, was kind enough to give me a few minutes at the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative to talk about her partnership with Hani Masri and the Tomorrow’s Youth Organization in Nablus, Palestine.