Pakistan

Afghanistan: Back To Square One

November 12, 2009 – 1:54 pm

This is getting ridiculous:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Counterinsurgency, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, Karl Eikenberry, National Security, Obama Administration, Robert Gates, Stanley McChrystal, surge, War | Comments

Iran Moves Closer to the Bomb

November 10, 2009 – 1:15 am

If Iranian engineers are testing static and un-fueled devices, they are very close to being ready to conduct their first test. Whatever action the world is going to take, diplomatic or military, must happen soon — or the world will have to cope with a nuclear armed, fundamental Islamic state.

By Bruce Henderson | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged foreign policy, IAEA, Iran, Middle East, MidEast, Nuclear Proliferation | Comments

Why Is Hillary Clinton Secretary Of State?

November 5, 2009 – 12:40 pm

The question is a pressing one:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Middle East, Obama Administration, Palestinians | Comments

The White House Doesn’t Get Afghanistan

November 3, 2009 – 9:35 am

In the aftermath of Abdullah Abdullah’s withdrawal from the second round of the presidential race in Afghanistan, we get the following from the Obama Administration:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan Presidential Election, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, General Stanley McChrystal, Hamid Karzai, National Security, Obama Administration, War, Who Lost Afghanistan? | Comments

The Afghan Non-Election

November 1, 2009 – 6:05 pm

Whatever else the official line from various governments–including our own–might be, the fact of the matter is that the withdrawal of Abdullah Abdullah from the second round of presidential voting in Afghanistan means less legitimacy for the Afghan government.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan Presidential Election, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, General Stanley McChrystal, Hamid Karzai, National Security, Obama Administration, War, Who Lost Afghanistan? | Comments

Quote Of The Day

October 31, 2009 – 2:21 pm

“We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move . . .”

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, economy, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, Obama Administration, taxes | Comments

October 28, 2009 – 9:13 am

The tragedy unfolding in the country presents a ridiculously complex challenge for the Obama Administration; one that can’t be solved with any policy silver bullets. As if the politics of the country were not bedeviling enough, violence in Pakistan has skyrocketed to tremendous levels:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, National Security, Obama Administration, Taliban, War | Comments

Hillary Tours India

July 20, 2009 – 10:27 am

Real things are happening in the world, and the American press corps neither understands nor cares. Incredibly, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are involved, and the words “praetorian guard” appear nowhere in an accurate description. Instead, we’re seeing the maturation of the Obama Administration’s approach to foreign policy, and India is paying for it.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Barack Obama, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, India, International Relations, Manhoman Singh, State Department | 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, foreign policy, Islamabad, National Security, Swat Valley, Taliban, United States | Comments

Barack Obama’s India-Pakistan Mess

April 13, 2009 – 12:59 am

What Team Obama has given us thus far is not a foreign policy, it is a mess. It is not realism, but a resignation to the way the world wants to go, a rejection of the idea that America can influence it. It is a destruction of years of bipartisan effort to align democracies with common interests against failed states and rising tyrants, from which no good is coming.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged American foreign policy, Asia, Barack Obama, Christopher Badeaux, democracies, foreign policy, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, India, Indo-Pakistan, Realism, Realpolitik | Comments

Tag Archives: Pakistan

Afghanistan: Back To Square One

Iran Moves Closer to the Bomb

Why Is Hillary Clinton Secretary Of State?

The White House Doesn’t Get Afghanistan

The Afghan Non-Election

Quote Of The Day

Pakistan

Hillary Tours India

Pakistan Falling

Barack Obama’s India-Pakistan Mess

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