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Noah Millman follows up on the role of foreign policy in presidential elections (via Andrew): Larison says that foreign policy was particularly important to Cold War elections, and that therefore this period was abnormal, but that view should be qualified because with the advent of the Cold War, big-picture foreign policy debate largely ceased. There [...]
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Marc Thiessen tells the story of the anti-Bush neoconservatives: This of course ignores the fact that many neoconservatives were deeply critical of the Bush administration during its time in office (for coddling Mubarak and Putin and mishandling post-liberation Iraq, among other policies). I’m not sure what point Thiessen thinks he’s making here. Yes, neoconservatives were [...]
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Dan McGroarty is terribly worried about Russia: Rather than reciprocate with a Russian ‘Reset,’ Moscow seems to have chosen to play the spoiler’s role. The playbook is fairly predictable: Keep the Middle East on the boil, fuel a little anti-Yanqui sentiment in the Western Hemisphere, sow a little discord in the Trans-Atlantic Alliance – the [...]
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Shadow Government offers up some revisionist history: Many readers of this blog will remember that the PP was slated to win the 2004 elections before the terrorist attacks in Madrid. The terrorists act perpetrated by al Qaeda were designed to sabotage the PP and “punish” Spain for participation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rajoy lost that [...]
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David Hoffman reviews the problem of tactical nuclear weapons: Miasnikov urges change from the status quo. He proposes a two-stage process to improve transparency of both Russian and U.S. tactical arsenals. It would start with something very simple: an exchange of data. How many are there, and where? With both the United States and Russia [...]
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Rod comments on the storming of Britain’s embassy in Iran: A Tehran mob invaded the British embassy and ransacked it today. This is incredibly discouraging. I strongly believe war with Iran would be a total disaster for us and for the world, but there can be no doubt that Iran is not a normal country, [...]
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Pete Wehner recites the party line: The efforts to “re-set” relations with Russia have failed. During the Bush presidency relations with Japan, China, India, Mexico, Colombia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Great Britain (to name just a few countries) were better than they have been during the Obama years. Many Republicans hear these things somewhere, [...]
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Dan Drezner recently embraced RINO status, but that wasn’t what interested me about this post. One of the comments that wasn’t included in his Spectator article on Republican foreign policy caught my attention: [A]s an international relations specialist, I find the state of the state of the GOP foreign policy debate to be utterly depressing, [...]
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Bret Stephens advises Republican candidates to believe in fairy tales: And it [our prosperity] depends on our embattled allies, from Taiwan to Georgia to Israel, knowing that we have both the will and the wherewithal to stand for their defense. Whether or not the U.S. should defend these “embattled allies,” what is certain is that [...]
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Marc Lynch reviews a new survey of Arab public opinion, and mentions this in passing: Only 35% now say that the intervention in Libya was the right thing to do — quite a decline from the enthusiasm in the spring. 46% of the respondents said that the intervention was a mistake. Let’s remember that one [...]
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