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Zinni Calls on Obama to Release "National Strategy Report" and for US "Smart Power" Functions to be Organized in a New Military Command

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Security Strategy, Defense Depoartment, Smart Power, Anthony Zinni, National Security, Centcom, Defense Policy, US Aid, Soft Power, Envoys, State Department, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Zinni's proposals are provocative and substantive. I have asked someone at the Department of State about possibly responding. Hopefully this will happen in the near term.

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Who'd a Thunk It? Bipartisan Consensus on Foreign Aid

Sheila Herrling | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Qddr, National Security Strategy, Usaid, Kerry-Lugar Bill, John Kerry, US Foreign Aid, Usaid-Policy, National Security Council, World News
Sheila Herrling

Amidst of a month of partisan battles on Capitol Hill, a bill was introduced this week that rose above party lines in a major step towards strengthening and reforming US foreign aid policy.

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It's Not Oil Supply -- It's the High Fear Hype!

Steve Clemons | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, National Security Strategy, Wmds, John McCain, u.s. Foreign Policy, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Research Magazine, Middle East Equilibrium, George W. Bush, Bush/Cheney, Gary Sick, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, First USA Bank, Iran, Richard Vague, Nuclear Weapons, Columbia University, Oil Drilling, Middle East, Nancy Pelosi, Barclays USA, Oil, Israel, Crisis, New Equilibrium, Richard Cheney, Ahmadenijad, Obama Oil, 2008 Election, Oil Prices, McCain Oil, Politics News
Steve Clemons

This debate over oil and energy policy disgusts me because both Obama and McCain are trying to force short term, knee jerk responses to a major policy challenge for the nation.

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