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Blog Entries by Mayhill Fowler from 11/2009

A New Foreign Policy: Hillary Clinton Targets Pakistan

| Posted 11.03.2009 | World
Read More: Senator John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Pakistan, President Barack Obama, World News

Hillary Clinton's three-day visit to Islamabad and Lahore, which began inauspiciously on the day of the terrorist attacks, was widely derided in the Pakistani press and cursorily covered here at home.

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Bittergate: the Untold Story Behind the Story that Rocked the Obama Campaign

| Posted 11.05.2009 | Books
Read More: Bittergate, Michael Sokolove, Bitter, Matt Bai, Obama Bitter, Obama Calls Small Towns Bitter, Obama Bitter Comment, 2008 Election, David Plouffe, Barack Obama, Mayhill Fowler, Clueless Journalist: Media, Mayhill Fowler Bittergate, Bias and the Great Election of 2008, One Year Later, Books News

Obama's Bittergate remark -- which I broke and which is revisited in David Plouffe's new book -- was and still is one of the biggest stories of that historic presidential run. It is also still one of the least understood. Here's the untold story behind it.

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The New Strategy for Obama's War: Precision Power

| Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Read More: Insurgency, Obama's War Afghanistan, President Obama, President Obama Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, War in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Waziristan, American Military, Taliban, War on Terror, Politics News

There is nothing like the convergence of two equally unpleasant scenarios -- in this case the danger in Pakistan and American forces settling further into Afghanistan -- to sharpen a leader's mind.

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