Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters In September 2008, then US Senator Lincoln Chafee did what many other smart, sensible Republicans should do today. He distanced himself from the pugnacious, anti-informed, increasingly deluded and violence-hugging wing of his GOP party.
The fact that the GOP is now experiencing the kind of outrageous character assaults against Muslims that many Dems, like US House Representative Keith Ellison, have endured only means that the push back has come much later than it should have.
This morning, I hope to reflect a bit about this interesting report that the Center for American Progress just released, titled “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America“, but will be doing so from taxis, buses, and cars trying to make my way back from upper New York.
. . .A clip from an exchange I had yesterday morning on C-Span’s Washington Journal with host Greta Brawner. We got into quite a bit about the currents that come next in Libyan governance and also discussed the different model of intervention President Obama has hatched.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Some thoughts on how Obama may have constructed a new approach to foreign intervention on last night’s Rachel Maddow Show.
Like Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein was also a horrendous thug whose arbitrary and brutal rule resulted in the deaths of vast numbers of his own citizens — but there is no doubt that taking Saddam out removed one of the effective constraints on Iran.
Just had to share this pic on the personal channel. Daddy’s Home. Just back from a good trip to Kabul. Will be writing a number of pieces based on what I learned and saw. More soon. — Steve Clemons is Washington Editor at Large at The Atlantic, where this post first appeared.
I look pretty ragged in this pic because it was a ragged morning, blogging about the bombings and gunfights in Kabul this morning. The British Council offices in Kabul were attacked by insurgents on a national holiday commemorating Afghanistan’s independence from Great Britain.
Vice President Joe Biden has this exactly right. The time is not right for a formal G2 arrangement between China and the United States — but a defacto G2 now exists.
A new bar is opening in DC, called “Hemingway’s Bar”, in the invite only Cuban Interests Section. This is vastly better public diplomacy than the US-Cuba tit-for-tat shenanigans of the past.