This morning in Zurich, I am chairing the “Terrorism and Counterterrorism” panel of the International Security Forum 2011 which is organized in partnership with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
It may come as a relief to President Obama that France has decided to increase the pace of operations in Libya by deploying attack helicopters. Britain, on the other hand, seems to still be on the fence. The role of airpower in this conflict has been a critical one.
For those of you following President Obama’s trip to Ireland, the UK, France, and Poland, here is the opener of a piece I just wrote for the BBC on the need for US-UK Relations to get an update and reset.
Theodore Roosevelt’s words on Presidents and the critical importance of avoiding ‘yes men’ and getting unvarnished counsel and critique: The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants.
(Chester the Turtle, lives in Chester River, Chestertown; photo credit: Andrew Oros; click image for larger version) I love cities — but love nature too, and this very big Maryland snapping turtle crawled up into my back yard recently, dug itself a big hole for the next generation of turtles in our river and creek,…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Above clip submitted for your enjoyment. Much going on — tons of media stuff, but really enjoyed this discussion with the turbo-intelligent Rachel Maddow.
That really, really, really cool digital, transparent wall that Wolf Blitzer and John King began using as their portal into American politics and the elections was devised and put together by then CNN DC Bureau Chief David Bohrman, who has just been named CNN SVP & Chief Innovation Officer Worldwide.
Nicholas Kristof’s bombshell article yesterday probing into the notes, letters and thinking on Afghanistan by Richard Holbrooke has a number of good journalists, including Politico‘s Ben Smith, scrambling to reassess where one of the Democrat Party’s foreign policy titans really stood on America’s longest war.
Thanks to then Embassy of France to the US Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs, and now recently returned Embassy Minister of Finance, Jean-Francois Boittin, I met Dominique Strauss-Kahn for a one-on-one meeting in 1998.
Ziyad Clot, a French lawyer who advised the Palestinian side in negotiatios with Israel during the Annapolis effort, has announced himself as the whistle-blower and source of the highly controversial “Palestine Papers.” He reports today at Al Jazeera why he did it.
