I have been interested in a number of large gaps in perception about American foreign policy and politics in general — and digging into them for a longish essay/polemic I am writing.
David Brooks asks a very good question about Harriet Miers in his New York Times column this morning: Can Harriet Miers write a lucid Court decision? Did Bush ask for a writing example? Did he ask Laura to review it? While I think it’s useful to have fundamentalists and establishment Republicans divide over Harrier Miers,…
This Financial Times article is a must read. Those whose expectations have been “dashed” and who played such a pivotal role in directing America’s armies to invade Iraq need to be held accountable for their recklessness. It’s not enough to lament and say, after the fact, that things didn’t go well. “It’s too bad.
John Bolton has preempted a Security Council briefing on Darfur. It was over Bolton’s ambivalence about coordinated international action in the case of genocide that Senator Russell Feingold — a staunch believer that the President should nearly always have the team he or she wants — decided to oppose Bolton’s nomination to the United Nations….
I was reading about Condoleeza Rice’s trip to Kyrgyzstan and her efforts to secure ongoing U.S. access to bases there. She succeeded, but in the various reports, it was noted that she skipped Uzbekistan — where Americans have had a base which will soon be abandoned.
Economist Peter Morici, with whom I used to work many years ago at the Economic Strategy Institute, has sent out a superb note outlining the “self-dealing” among top executives at Delphi, which has just declared bankruptcy. He writes: Delphi CEO Robert S.
Today’s session with Yosri Fouda was fascinating. C-Span is re-playing the 2 hour segment tonight at 9:56 p.m. and then again at 1:52 a.m. (for those recently back from Asia). Fouda outlined, despite his characteristic modesty, some startling and important new observations about al Qaeda’s leadership.
Today, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. eastern, Al Jazeera’s star investigative journalist Yosri Fouda will be speaking about his views about the current struggle against terrorism, a potential split inside Al Qaeda leadership, and his view of American foreign policy. I will be moderating the program.
It’s clear that the world is absorbing a set of incredibly devastating natural disasters — the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the massive earthquake in December 2004 and December 2003 in Iran, the recent mudslides in Guatemala, the hurricanes in the Gulf (which pale in terms of lives lost but are on scale with general infrastructure…
I have no idea how this Valerie Plame leak investigation is going to come out. No one has inside information that is credible — because Fitzgerald does not leak. But he’s the sort who inspires all of us to understand that independent investigations mean independent. It’s fascinating to watch him operate.
