Hillary Clinton has an opportunity in the next two months to show the steely resolve she is famous for and potentially change the course of our country’s history. She has to take on two countries who think they have the U.S. over a barrel, but really don’t: China and Israel.
China- Yesterday Chinese Prime Minister Wen [...]
China is going to have to learn to play by the rules of the game of capitalism. In Beijing, the base of State Capitalism, practiced at a level never seen before, the Chinese leaders act as if they have no idea who is behind the epic string of hacker attacks on the most secret intellectual [...]
As the President prepares his Tuesday address to the nation and Congress prepares for hearings on the war, I sure hope everyone is reading the cogent analysis of Thomas Johnson (Naval Postgraduate School) and Chris Mason (Center for Advanced Defense Studies) entitled Refighting the Last War; Afghanistan and the Vietnam Template. Analysts have compared Afghanistan [...]
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke on Iran.
President Obama’s top envoy to Afghanistan declared Sunday that Iran should play a vital role helping stabilize the war-torn country. It was the latest statement by Obama officials signaling a clear shift away from the Bush administration’s policy of avoiding direct engagement with Tehran.
Secretary of State Clinton on North Korea.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham [...]
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke on Iran.
President Obama’s top envoy to Afghanistan declared Sunday that Iran should play a vital role helping stabilize the war-torn country. It was the latest statement by Obama officials signaling a clear shift away from the Bush administration’s policy of avoiding direct engagement with Tehran.
Secretary of State Clinton on North Korea.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham [...]
The decision this morning of the reformer Mohammed Khatami to enter the race for the Iranian Presidency is a good sign for U.S.-Iranian relations.
Mr. Khatami, who has a broad base of support, would pose a serious challenge to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose aides have said he will seek re-election. “The Iranian nation’s historical demand is to [...]
The posturing on the Stimulus by Republicans is such a Kabuki dance. The MSM has underestimated Barack’s political prowess from the beginning. I looked back at a post I wrote on June 4th when the Clintonistas were hanging on by a thread but still saying Barack had to pick Hillary as VP to survive. I [...]
The Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman is trying to stop the appointment of former Senator George Mitchell as key negotiator for the State Department in the Middle East.
“Sen. Mitchell is fair. He’s been meticulously even-handed,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. “But the fact is, American policy in the Middle East hasn’t been [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Olmert’s boast yesterday that he forced Condi Rice to abstain from the U.N. resolution on Gaza she wrote, once again raises the issue of whether U.S. policy is being made in Washington or Jerusalem.
“I said, ‘Get me President Bush on the phone,’ ” Mr. Olmert said in a speech in the southern Israeli [...]
One of the first posts I ever wrote was about Sid Blumenthal coming to Hollywood to remind liberals that a Clinton Restoration was at hand. Since we fought a bitter primary battle to make sure the restoration did not occur, I think Barack has to make sure that the Clintonistas don’t dominate his administration. I [...]