A Toast to Austerity
March 17, 2010 | 10:50 AM | 1 Comment
As Americans get set to toast their (real or perceived) Irish roots, here's one for the Emerald Isle. Faced with a difficult economic situation, Irish leaders aren't kicking the can down the...
read more »Obama Asks Democrats for Swiss Cheese Iran Sanctions
March 12, 2010 | 08:30 AM | 1 Comment
A year ago, Secretary of State Clinton was defending the Obama Administration's Iran outreach, claiming its olive branch approach positioned the U.S. to impose "crippling" sanctions should...
read more »"Frankenstein" Goes Global
March 07, 2010 | 06:05 PM | 0 Comments
Al-Qaeda has been our focus since 9/11. Yet Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani-based jihadist group that carried out the days-long rampage in Mumbai, India, demands our attention.
Terror in Mumbai...
read more »Xenophobes Don't Deal
March 04, 2010 | 10:38 AM | 2 Comments
I'm glad I'm not Professor B.R. Myers, who has spent eight years studying North Korean propaganda. This devoted academic has been shaking things up though, and we should hear his...
read more »Bottoms-up in Pakistan
March 01, 2010 | 10:22 AM | 0 Comments
What is it about whisky and Pakistan?
In a New York Times story on increased cooperation between the CIA and Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, reports...
read more »More $, More $, More $
February 26, 2010 | 01:34 PM | 1 Comment
It’s that time of year again, when Cabinet heads hit Capitol Hill to defend their department’s budget request. With the federal government drowning in red ink --$1.6 trillion this...
read more »Beijing's Birthday Guest
February 23, 2010 | 11:31 PM | 1 Comment
In the crowded field of the world's worst, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe nears the top. Over 30 years of rule, this tyrant has destroyed his country's economy and many, many people....
read more »Olympic size snub
February 12, 2010 | 01:51 PM | 0 Comments
The Winter Olympics kick-off tonight in Vancouver. Outside the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., a pseudo-scoreboard has been counting down the days/ hours/seconds to the opening...
read more »State Department Heads are Buried in Yemeni Sand
February 04, 2010 | 01:44 AM | 3 Comments
Ruling Yemen is like "dancing with snakes." That’s Ali Abdullah Saleh speaking, Yemen’s president for the past three decades. Back in Gulf War I days, Saleh was...
read more »Little Foreign Intrigue in President's State of the Union
January 28, 2010 | 06:19 PM | 1 Comment
A few thoughts on foreign policy and last night's State of the Union. Generally, the significance of this annual rite is overhyped, but nonetheless…
Free trade...
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