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Of Afghanistan, Hell, And Handbaskets

September 22, 2009 – 1:02 am

Via New Ledger colleague Dan McLaughlin–who wickedly says that “someone should ask Eric Shinseki what he thinks of this”–we get a depressing report on the Pentagon’s (read “the Obama Administration’s”) reaction to General McChrystal’s request for more troops:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, James Jones, National Security, Obama Administration, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Terrorism, War | Comments

Stanley McChrystal Raises Alarm Bells

September 21, 2009 – 12:02 am

This makes for stark, and exceedingly worrisome reading:

Shorter James Jones: Barack Obama In A Bubble Edition

July 3, 2009 – 11:40 pm

“Concerning the situation in Afghanistan, and the need for more troops, the military should make sure to tell Barack Obama what he wants to hear from now on.”

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Barack Obama In A Bubble, foreign policy, James Jones, National Security, Obama Administration, War | Comments

Miranda Rights for Terrorists? Neighborhood Watch on Terror

June 11, 2009 – 9:43 am

By broadening the extraconstitutional Miranda holding and all of the rights it promises to encompass men who are definitionally committing war crimes by pretending to be noncombatants while fighting the United States, the Obama Administration is teaching these men that a criminal process is underway in which they will be cared for, represented, and have a much higher likelihood of returning to the field of battle.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Geneva Convention, George W. Bush, Mike Rogers, Miranda, War on Terror | Comments

Rumsfeld on Bible Verses: Fires Back at GQ

May 20, 2009 – 12:19 am

The unsourced suggestion by GQ magazine that Donald Rumsfeld deployed slide images and Bible verses to crassly manipulate President Bush toward his ends is a significant one, and one designed to insult and offend. It makes up the bulk of what is notable about Robert Draper’s piece. But on further examination, it appears to reveal more about cliched media views of the personalities of Rumsfeld and of Bush than of anything resembling fact.

By Ben Domenech | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Bible verses, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, GQ, GQ Magazine, Iraq, President Bush, Robert Draper, Robert Gates | Comments

“Leader Of The Free World”?

April 4, 2009 – 6:03 pm

Is this any way to conduct diplomacy?

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Angela Merkel, Arms Control, Barack Obama, Diplomacy, Europe, G20, Gail Collins, Iran, NATO, New York Times, Nicolas Sarkozy, Obama Administration, Russia | Comments

Failure At The NATO Summit

April 4, 2009 – 5:01 pm

As you read this, remember that the Obama Administration was supposed to usher in a new era of diplomacy:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, NATO, Obama Administration | Comments

We’re Being Rolled

April 2, 2009 – 1:36 am

Peter Feaver surveys the diplomatic landscape. What he sees should disturb those who thought that the Obama Administration would be staffed with masterful diplomats:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Diplomacy, Europe, financial crisis, Foreign Affairs, Guantanamo Bay, Obama Administration, soft power | Comments

What To Expect From The G20 Summit

April 1, 2009 – 2:26 am

A best case/worst case bit of speculation, drawn up from the perspective of the Obama Administration.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Anglo-Saxon Model, Barack Obama, Dirigisme, economy, Fiscal Stimulus, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, G20 Summit, NATO, Obama Administration | Comments

Quote Of The Day

April 1, 2009 – 1:10 am

“It’s easy for critics of the neo-cons to cast them as marginal thinkers with out-sized influence, along with all the dark conspiracies that implies. Harder, though more honest, is to recognize that the neo-cons are really championing tendencies in U.S. foreign policy that run much deeper in American life than the pockets of their advocacy shops.”

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged foreign policy, Iraq, Neoconservatives | Comments

Iraq, Reconsidered

March 31, 2009 – 1:55 am

Iraq today is not the Iraq of the 2006 nadir. How Iraq, the U.S. military leadership, and the American civilian war leadership changed for the better are the subjects of Thomas Ricks’s outstanding and eminently readable new book, The Gamble, in which the villains get their comeuppance, and the emerging heroes triumph.

By Joshua Treviño | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged David Petraeus, Donald Rumsfeld, Fiasco, George W. Bush, GWOT, Iraq, Joshua Trevino, Obama's War, The Gamble, Thomas Ricks, Tom Ricks | Comments

What About Pakistan?

March 28, 2009 – 6:51 pm

Much of the attention being paid to the President’s recent speech on American policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan has focused on the fact that more troops will transfer over to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban and al Qaeda there. But largely lost in the shuffle has been Pakistan.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Financial Aid, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, Obama Administration, Pakistan | Comments

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