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.
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Shorter Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
January 23, 2010 – 3:18 pm
“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?
January 21, 2010 – 10:59 pm
Boy, those were the days.
Foreign Policy Crises
January 21, 2010 – 5:42 pm
They can sneak up on the leadership class of any particular country in very unexpected ways.
Re: Obama and Carterism
January 21, 2010 – 1:12 pm
God’s sweet and immaculate Mercy, if I have to read one more attempt to pigeonhole American foreign policy tendencies into another dead President (or Treasury Secretary! or poet!), I may go on a shooting spree. This is quite aside from the note that Jefferson was a huge exponent of the Revolution in France (but not of ending slavery…), which sort of undercuts the attempted dichotomy here.
So . . . In A Certain Grouping Of People, We Have Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, Danny Glover . . .
January 17, 2010 – 10:12 pm
And Rachel Maddow:
Thank Heaven For Outsourcing
January 17, 2010 – 9:59 pm
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”
January 17, 2010 – 2:54 pm
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:
About Time
January 13, 2010 – 9:37 am
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:
We Can’t Trust Kim Jong Il, Or the People Who Do
January 11, 2010 – 1:25 pm
Who still denies that the North Koreans are trying to develop a uranium bomb? Two groups, mainly: inflexible North Korea apologists, and those who are still so obsessed with hating George W. Bush that they’re willing to overlook Kim Jong Il’s flaws. The latter group is rapidly fading into irrelevance. The former group ought to.
Still The One
January 10, 2010 – 2:48 pm
Despite constant reports of American declinism, Dan Twining is not deterred from pointing out what declinists ought to know; that America is still, far and away, the preeminent power on the planet.
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