Tag Archives: Foreign Affairs

Can We Call It “Tyranny” Yet?

As long as I live, I shall never understand why there was ever any controversy about calling Hugo Chavez a dictator:

I Wonder If Richard Haass Will Herald A Trend

Up until now, most of the realist, or realpolitik school of American foreign policy has opposed–resolutely, one might add–any effort at fomenting regime change in Iran, doubtless spurred by what the school has perceived to have been the mistakes of American foreign policy vis-à-vis regime change in Iraq. As a realist–or realpolitik practitioner–in good standing, it might have been expected that Richard Haass would not deviate from the dictates of the school.

Shorter Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

“If the families of opponents of the Islamic regime in Iran get harassed and imprisoned, that is the fault of the opponents in question for speaking out against the regime, and not a moral failing that we can lay at the feet of the regime. Also, Iranian dissidents are traitors.”

Remember When Democrats Were A PRO-Trade Party?

Boy, those were the days.

Foreign Policy Crises

They can sneak up on the leadership class of any particular country in very unexpected ways.

So . . . In A Certain Grouping Of People, We Have Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, Danny Glover . . .

And Rachel Maddow:

Thank Heaven For Outsourcing

Jonah Goldberg reads Thomas Friedman so that the rest of us don’t have to–though I suppose I ought to mention that I read Friedman before having read Goldberg.

“The Party Of The Wind”

Those who want proof that Iranians are no longer afraid of the regime that has sought to tyrannize them need only examine Iason Athanasiadis’s excellent article to find out that Iran may well have crossed a threshold:

More Ways To Help Haiti

As expected, and in keeping with recent American governmental practices in responding to natural disasters, President Obama today selected Presidents Clinton and Bush (the Younger) to head up the American effort to help Haiti in the aftermath of the utterly cataclysmic earthquake it suffered.

Comparing America To Europe

There really is no comparison.

What Krugman Didn’t See . . .

Or, perhaps, what he saw, and chose to ignore.

About Time

After months and months of saying that it will not get involved in supporting the protesters in Iran, the Obama Administration . . . is getting involved in supporting the protesters in Iran:

- March 17, 2010 -

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