Politico‘s Carol Lee wrote an interesting profile of Obama foreign policy speech writer Ben Rhodes on May 18th, 2009. But then in the German publication, Stern, an article written by Von Niels Kruse which references Rhodes and makes strikingly similar comments as Carol Lee’s piece was published on June 3rd, 2009.
Though there is an outright war going on between the central government of Pakistan and the Taliban, there is also a PR battle being waged to see who will win the devotion of the Pakistani majority.
U.S.-Russia Relations Since September 11, 2001 on Dipity. I thought I’d share this timeline of U.S.-Russian relations over the past eight years that I put together for some research I am doing related to the New America Foundation‘s new Great Powers Initiative.
Over the past six months, a number of analysts have attempted to dispense with the facile analogy of the Iraq surge to the Afghan surge and dissuade policymakers from grafting the success of Iraq on to US strategy in Afghanistan.
Amjad Atallah co-directs the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force. President Obama today delivered an exemplary speech that has the potential to significantly advance America’s national security interests in the Middle East.
Iran’s nuclear program is the one issue above all others that is preventing a whole-hearted American effort to change the parameters of the U.S.-Iran relationship. Each side has set a red line, and the lines are miles apart.
This post is a “professional courtesy salute” to Helene Cooper who we now see so frequently in White House press conferences with Barack Obama. She often gets the first question in at some of the high sizzle press moments with the President.
I have been watching parts of this online feed of a historic meeting today of the Organization of American States. A final, persistent chunk of the Cold War is in the process of quickly thawing and breaking up in these very minutes.
From about 12:10 pm PST/3:10 pm EST, I will be chatting with Warren Olney of To The Point, a nationally syndicated NPR show produced by KCRW and Public Radio International. It is often easiest to listen live online — but a roster of other stations around the country and air times is available here.
(Photo Credit: jamesdale10’s photostream) More than six years after the United States invaded Iraq, Iraqi Kurds finally exported oil to Turkey for the first time yesterday. The oil exports indicate two important developments. First, Ankara has made a strategic decision to engage the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil, Iraq.
