Cuba is one of the most misunderstood and fascinating nations on the planet. Everyone I have met who has traveled to Havana insists it is one of the most beautiful and unique places that they have visited.
We suspect that Rick Warren probably still is buddies with President Obama and keeps the photos of his big day offering Barack Obama’s Inauguration day prayer prominently in his office, his home, his wallet, maybe on the dashboard of his car.
Today at 10:50 am, I will be chatting with Montel Williams on Air America Radio about Afghanistan and the McChrystal Report. One of the things I may remind Montel of is that during the Republican National Convention when he was off sitting with luminaries like Norman Ornstein, Ron Brownstein, Howard Fineman, and E.J.
Yesterday, I hosted General Anthony Zinni for a discussion on his views on national security decision making, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, the broader Middle East, and President Obama’s approach to foreign policy. Zinni has been on tour discussing his new book, Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom.
Daniel Mandel is a Program Associate at the New America Foundation/Economic Growth Program. The Democratic Party of Japan’s (DPJ) historic landslide victory over the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Sunday’s election will have important consequences for that country’s domestic politics, as well as its strategic relationship with the United States.
This is a guest note by Jim Krane, a former AP Persian Gulf correspondent. His new book on Dubai, City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism, is available here. As Americans, Israelis and Palestinians continue their endless peace-jockeying, a more hopeful solution has emerged.
Former CENTCOM Commander General Anthony Zinni is one of those leaders who really “gets” the complexities and nuances of statecraft – an understanding that led him to bravely oppose the Iraq war when it was very unpopular in Washington to do so.
Tomorrow at 8 am EST, I will be chatting with Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman about the impact of Sunday’s Japanese national elections on US-Japan relations. At about 10 am EST, I will be talking yet again about Hatoyama, Aso, Ozawa, Okada and the other rising and falling Japanese political players on Berkeley’s listener-supported KPFA radio….
I recently had the privilege of attending the swearing-in ceremony for my friend and former New America Foundation colleague Karen Kornbluh who recently was confirmed as the new US Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Anyone who knows New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson knows he can be a handful, can be complicated, and can too often want the story about him more than others. Those are characteristics of most who aspire to the presidency.