Up at Pocantico this evening at the home and estate of the Rockefeller clan to discuss U.S. foreign policy options. The op-ed I wrote for a Japanese paper, the Daily Yomiuri, two posts below is getting a surprising amount of attention internationally. I’ve had lots of email responses. But let me leave you with this….
Finally, people are beginning to see that there is a serious gap between Condi Rice and John Bolton. Anne-Marie Slaughter sums up the state of affairs regarding America’s stance towards the new Human Rights Council beautifully.
I scribbled the following piece when in Jerusalem and sent to friends in Tokyo to consider publishing. It has just appeared in Japan’s largest English language daily, the Daily Yomiuri. Daily Yomiuri — March 18, 2006 Time for Bush to Turn Realist by Steven Clemons The various denominations that have demarcated the U.S.
I had a great evening speaking to members of the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations last night and even ran into a high school pal of James Woolsey, also from Tulsa, who has some of the same concerns I do about our former CIA Director who has benefited too much financially in my view from…
Monday night, March 20, 6:30 p.m. arrive; 7:00 p.m. screening. E Street Cinemas — 555 11th Street NW — Washington, DC 8:30 pm short discussion with Our Brand is Crisis Director Rachel Boynton. I will be moderating the discussion and introducing the film.
Apologies to the many New Yorkers who have written about meeting up. There has been some uncertainty about my flight plans — now mostly resolved. I get into JFK Airport today at 3:30 pm and am then heading into Manhattan to meet Josh Marshall.
Ehud Olmert, acting Prime Minister of Israel and the head of the new Ariel Sharon-created Kadima party, just scored big in Israel with the mostly bloodless seizure in Jericho of six Palestinian prisoners who were allegedly involved in the murder of an Israeli cabinet minister in 2001.
In Jerusalem…working hard. Oakley says it’s time for an Open Thread.
Two weeks ago, I heard Zbigniew Brzezinski comment that Jimmy Carter had done something that few former U.S. Presidents did — other than Richard Nixon — and that was write major articles and give significant oratorical addresses on foreign policy without consulting their former national security advisors.
Just in case their are any political blog junkies in the neighborhood, I’m working late tonight at a very cool cafe/coffee shop in Jerusalem names Tmol Shilshom. I’ll be here late. I’ve already been engaged by some very interesting writers here on questions of US foreign policy, Hamas issues, and the brewing mess with Iran….
