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Obama Reconsidered: Our Parliamentary President

May 4, 2009 – 1:36 am

Last week’s glowing encomia for President Obama’s first 100 days in office reflects both our odd, historically deviant, post-Baby Boomer collective fascination with talking as a sign of intelligence, and a complete misunderstanding of the man and his nature. It’s enough to say that President Obama is and has been a legislator for over a decade, and that shows no signs of changing now that he calls the White House home.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged American foreign policy, Barack Obama, G-20, Jimmy Carter, John Kerry | Comments

Grading President Obama

April 29, 2009 – 4:49 pm

With the 100 day mark reached, we at the New Ledger got together to render our judgment on President Obama’s time–brief as it has been, thus far–in office

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged 100 Days, Barack Obama, Domestic Policy, Foreign Affairs, Obama Administration, Russia | Comments

100 Days: Three Doctrines in Search of a President

April 29, 2009 – 2:39 am

There are two iron laws of American presidential politics. We owe both of them to a Roosevelt. The first is that every administration needs a foreign policy doctrine named after the President. The second is that every administration is evaluated at the hundred day mark.

By Ted Bromund | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Barack Obama, Bush Doctrine, Christopher Hill, Europe, George W. Bush, Harold Koh, Obama doctrine, Richard Nixon, Susan Rice | Comments

Who Lost Russia Policy?

April 28, 2009 – 2:53 am

With the first 100 days of the Obama Administration upon us, I decided to take a look at one emerging aspect of the Administration’s foreign policy; its efforts to retool our relationship with the Russians. What I find is not encouraging:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Arms Control, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Iran, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Obama Administration, Russia | Comments

Denied

April 25, 2009 – 2:54 pm

No two-thirds majority for the African National Congress in South Africa’s recently concluded elections, which means that the ANC cannot willy-nilly change the South African constitution or institute roadblocks against any prosecution of ANC leader Jacob Zuma, who will be the next president of South Africa.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged African National Congress, Corruption, Foreign Affairs, Jacob Zuma, South Africa | Comments

B-

April 25, 2009 – 12:09 am

That’s Peter Feaver’s grade for Barack Obama when it comes to the conduct of foreign policy over the first 100 days “the equivalent, in these grade-inflated days, of the old ‘gentleman’s C,’” as Feaver puts it.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Arms Control, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, Iran, North Korea, Obama Administration, Russia | Comments

Pakistan Falling

April 23, 2009 – 11:08 pm

It cannot be emphasized enough that the situation in Pakistan is reaching dangerous and disastrous levels–a development that is raising appropriately passionate expressions of alarm.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Asif Ali Zardari, Foreign Affairs, Islamabad, National Security, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Taliban, United States | Comments

Hugo Chavez’s Gift: A Book Review

April 23, 2009 – 11:02 pm

Conducted by Alvaro Vargas Llosa. About the only fault that I can find with the review is its last line: “I would pay anything to be a fly on the wall when President Obama opens the first page of the idiot’s bible.”

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Books, Eduardo Galeano, Foreign Affairs, Hugo Chavez, Obama Administration, Open Veins of Latin America, Summit of the Americas | Comments

What Would Abba Eban Have Said About Fidel Castro?

April 23, 2009 – 12:40 am

Ah, yes: Fidel Castro never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Foreign Affairs, Obama Administration, Raul Castro | Comments

Not A Dictatorship, Eh?

April 21, 2009 – 11:27 pm

Isn’t it funny how political opponents of Hugo Chavez always seem to find themselves the targets of anti-corruption probes:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Authoritarianism, Barack Obama, Dictatorship, Foreign Affairs, Hugo Chavez, Obama Administration, Tyranny, Venezuela | Comments

The Grip-And-Grin, And Its Aftermath

April 21, 2009 – 8:58 am

I have a new column for the New Ledger discussing Barack Obama’s meeting with Hugo Chavez at the recently concluded Summit of the Americas.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Authoritarianism, Barack Obama, Dictatorship, Foreign Affairs, Hugo Chavez, Obama Administration, Summit of the Americas, Tyranny, Venezuela | Comments

The Very Ridiculous Andrew Sullivan

April 20, 2009 – 11:30 pm

Commenting on the Roxana Saberi case, the blogger who once sought to stalk the pregnancy records of Sarah Palin has something remarkable to tell us:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Andrew Sullivan, Foreign Affairs, Interrogation, Iran, Roxana Saberi, torture | Comments

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