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Bret Stephens claims that they are, and as evidence for this claim he offers an anecdote about an anonymous French writer who has found Obama’s foreign policy underwhelming and has somehow concluded that neoconservatives have “returned.” It is worth noting that this anecdote is all that Stephens has to back up his argument that “the [...]
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[Corrected] Kevin Sullivan does not find this argument against Iran sanctions persuasive. Scoblete Sullivan believes that absolute opposition to sanctions is helpful to anti-Iran hawks: Rejecting sanctions doesn’t make Iran go away, it simply limits the viable options for dealing with the recalcitrant regime. Instead of a policy shaded in grays you get the more [...]
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Andrew and Fareed Zakaria have picked up on the same point I was making in my last column, which is that most conservative of Obama on foreign policy is hysterical and laughably weak. Andrew and Zakaria were focusing on reaction to Obama’s U.N. speech, which he had not yet given when I wrote the column, [...]
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Chuck Todd and Andrew seem to think that the Russian response to news of Iran’s enrichment facility is a significant move. Todd says that the Russians seem to be “on board,” and one assumes that he means that Moscow is “on board” with a more punitive approach to Iran’s nuclear program, but this is not [...]
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My new column on the weakness of Republican foreign policy criticism is now up.
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Jack Ross writes: As I wrote after the Cairo speech, Obama may be the first president since Herbert Hoover to seriously believe in the cause of peace. It is impossible to know for certain whether Obama “believes in the cause of peace,” but if we look at what the man has said and done over [...]
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Even Woodrow Wilson might have blanched at the mushy-headed exhortations to world peace and collective action better suited to a college dorm-room bull session or a holiday-season Coca-Cola commercial. “No nation can or should try to dominate another nation,” Obama intoned. “No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will [...]
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Scoblete notices the glaring contradiction in Helprin’s alarmist op-ed from this morning’s WSJ: Really, what is the point of being a super power if a swath of our elite exist in a state of near constant panic? It could be that the same hegemonists who cannot stay quiet about how unparalleled and unprecedented American power [...]
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Greg Scoblete shatters the main conceit in Obama’s address to the U.N. General Assembly today: This is a noble sentiment, and at the level of abstraction, probablyly true. But when we descend from the realm of abstraction, it falls apart. China no doubt wants to keep the nuclear club elite, but won’t join in sanctioning [...]
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The lesson of the recent post-election protests in Iran has little to do with the strength or weakness of Islamism; it is that people care about their democratic rights – about their right to have a say in how they are governed. This feeling is not something cooked up by neo-cons and democracy mongers in [...]
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