Jordan's King Visits Iraq, Urges Arabs To Support
BAGHDAD — Jordan's King Abdullah II held talks Monday with Iraq's prime minister after coming to Baghdad on an unannounced visit, the first by a...
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Meet the Bloggers: Darcy Burner Can End the Iraq War Responsibly
ZP Heller | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
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When it comes to the Iraq war, the question is no longer whether the U.S. should end it, but how. On yesterday's Meet the Bloggers, special guest Darcy Burner made the case for A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, which she co-authored earlier this year.
Friday Talking Points [41] -- The Silly Season
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
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I have a confession to make. I actually watch the network news. Maybe I should enter into a twelve-step program or something. But I don't watch the ...
North Korea and The New York Philharmonic: The "Why" Question Gets Answered
Ben Rosen | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
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My answer: To initiate a dialog between the people of two adversaries, the first of such talks in 58 years.
Talking Does Not Make a Foreign Policy
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
I believe talking and diplomacy are a good ideas, and a vast improvement over the Bush administration's bankrupt unilateralism. But they are merely means to an end. The question is: to what end?
Getting Ahead of the Power Curve
Richard Klass | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics
Obama has talked about new ways of thinking about military power and international relations and has more clearly seen world realities and possibilities for creative ways to deal with those realities.
Iran: Reading Tehran With Lolita (Time to Publish Iranian Writers)
Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
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While Azar Nafisi's bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, chronicled her efforts to teach forbidden Western literature, most Americans would be hard pressed to recall a single novel from Nafisi's native country.
Friday Talking Points [39] -- Republican Elitism Edition
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
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For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...
Stigmatizing War
Robert Koehler | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
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The moral center of humanity slowly asserts itself. Only the most powerful are too afraid to join. You may have missed the news: At the end of May, 1...
Fault Lines Emanating From Zimbabwe
Joe Lauria | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
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The vetoed sanctions resolution against Zimbabwe at the Security Council has exposed international tensions that divide the West from Africa, Russia from the West and the US from South Africa.
The McCain Campaign Tries Cross-Dressing on Iran
Daniel Levy | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
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So here was the McCain campaign accusing Obama of being insufficiently multilateral and pro-diplomacy in its foreign policy. It's hard to know where to begin.
McCain Camp Slams Obama as Weak on Iran - McCain Campaign 7.9 Press Conference Call Audio
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.09.2008 | Home
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WHO: Sen. John Thune, Senior Foreign Policy Advisors Randy Scheunemann and Kori Schake WHAT: Press conference call to discuss Sen. Barack Obama's...
A Decent Respect for the Opinions of Mankind: Iran Literacy Quiz
Robert Naiman | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
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Since it doesn't look like Washington has any intention of swearing off its bombing addiction anytime soon, in the spirit of '76, I offer the following quiz for the edification of the general public.
Bombs Away?
Steven Solomon and David Kaye | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
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A variety of pressures compelled the NATO powers in Dublin to support a ban in principle while preserving American flexibility to use cluster munitions in joint operations with allies that might join the treaty.
Politicians Play General, Generals Play Politics (Part 5)
Russ Wellen | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
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In the conclusion of our series on Jeff Huber, columnist at Military.com and author of a new novel, Bathtub Admirals, we asked him more questions on f...
Empire or Democracy: Are We Ready for the Fall?
John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
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As resources are drained, the principles inherent in a democratic republic will be compromised by what is needed to sustain a militaristic empire like the US.
Even Bigger than The Hype: Obama's Candidacy as World-Historical
Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
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But even though racial inequities persist, there is no doubt that the first black President will be a milestone, a watershed seemingly unthinkable before Obama's meteoric candidacy.
Larijani's Election Can Boost Congressional Diplomacy
Trita Parsi | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
While the Bush administration has opposed direct contact with the Iranian government, Tehran bears overwhelming responsibility for the failure to initiate a dialogue between the two countries.
Gen. Johns: John McCain "pugnacious" and "dogmatic"
Tom Andrews | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, I sat down with Brigadier General John Johns (ret.) to discuss whether or not the United States should engage nations like Iran diplomatica...
Poll: McCain Is Wrong, U.S. Should Engage Iran Diplomatically
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
John McCain isn't just on the wrong side of American public opinion when it comes to Iraq. A new Gallup poll shows that fully 67 percent of Americans ...
The Persian Question
Hooman Majd | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
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I have news for David Brooks and all who agree with him: the Iranians do understand their system, their foreign policy, what their regime stands for, and are quite happy that you are lost in how to deal with them.
College Town, Iraq
Lee Hudson Teslik | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
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I'm sitting in on a lecture at the public university in Sulaimani, one of the calmer cities in Iraqi Kurdistan, half an hour's drive from the Iran-Iraq border.
As Petraeus Blames Iran, Gilchrest and Murtha Call for Diplomatic "Surge"
Robert Naiman | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
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If Gilchrest's new, bipartisan push for real diplomacy with Iran and Syria gains support, it would put significant pressure on the administration to curtail its policy of confrontation with Iran.
Why We Said No: Three Diplomats' Duty
John Brady Kiesling | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
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Five years ago this month, three of us left the US Foreign Service in opposition to the war on Iraq. We were not pacifists. We were professional, non-partisan diplomats.
Music: The New Diplomatic Tongue
Marie Wilson | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
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Can musical diplomacy usher in a new era between North Korea and the U.S.?
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home