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….
My colleague and good friend Nir Rosen is turning into Mr. Q & A on the toughest parts of America’s foreign policy portfolio. Previously, he did this candid back-and-forth, “The Case for Cutting and Running“, with the Atlantic Monthly. Now, Foreign Policy magazine has just published this exchange with Nir on Iraq and Iran.
We have two years and nine months left with our current President, and his administration is again wobbly. Thus far, he seems to be falling in the polls because of his own actions and their consequences — not because of points the opposition has scored.
