Obama Doctrine

Both Sides Now: More War? U.S. in Iran, Syria, Afghanistan

HuffPost Radio | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Syria, Iran, John McCain, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rich Santorum, Mitt Romney, Contraception, Israel, Arianna Huffington, Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Mary Matalin, Obama Doctrine, Politics News

Huffington-Matalin debate U.S. military policy in Iran, Syria and Afghanistan after a decade of costly failures. Do war whoops resemble pre-Vietnam, pre-Iraq? And did St. Rick jump the shark by being so stridently anti-contraception and college?

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Dabbling in the Arab World

Kevin Bunkley | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Woodrow Wilson, President Obama, Wilsonian Diplomacy, Middle East, Muammar El-Qaddafi, National Transitional Council, Foreign Policy, World War I, Libya, North Africa, Al Qaeda, Libyan Revolution, Arab World, Obama Doctrine, Arab Spring, Politics News

It is possible that President Obama is reverting back to a new version of Wilsonian diplomacy in order to let the Arab world sort itself out, instead of directly affecting the outcome with U.S. intervention.

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A Gilded Affair with Something AWOL

Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: American Exceptionalism, Guild Hall, Obama UK, Ronald Reagan, Anglo-American, US UK Relations, Condoleezza Rice, Obama Doctrine, UK News

The Ronald Reagan Centennial Banquet on Monday night at Guild Hall was a glorious celebration. And yet, for this American, there was one glaring problem. It seemed so small, so wrong, so characteristic of the Obama Administration.

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Both Sides Now: Economy vs. Obama? GOP Goldwaterized? Afghan Porridge Right?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Hilary Rosen, Afghanistan War, U.S. Economy, John McCain, Kellyanne Conway, Rush Limbaugh, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Obama Doctrine, Barack Obama, Michele Bachmann, War Powers Act, Newt Gingrich, Barry Goldwater, Tea Party, Republicans, Politics News

Hilary Rosen and Kellyanne Conway disagree about how heavy the economic albatross will be politically and whether the GOP fringe will taint its nominee. Did President 'Aiken' just declare victory and come home?

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No-Drama Obama Is Also No-Doctrine Obama

John Feffer | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Libya, Obama Doctrine, Mikhail Gorbachev, Barack Obama, Humanitarian Intervention, War in Afghanistan, Libya Intervention, Hillary Clinton, War in Iraq, Foreign Policy, Bashar Assad, World News

When it comes to Barack Obama, political zoologists remain undecided whether he is a new kind of political animal and if his foreign policy represents a unique departure from the same old, same old.

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The Reagan and Obama "Doctrines" vs. the State Department

Allan Gerson | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Libya, Ronald Reagan, Military Intervention, Mek, United Nations Security Council, Humanitarian Crisis, Grenada, Iran, The State Department, Obama Doctrine, World News

In considering the response of President Obama and the State Department to the Libya crisis, immediate parallels to Ronald Reagan's Grenada experience come to mind.

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The Assad Doctrine vs. the Obama Doctrine

Raghida Dergham | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Obama Syria, Obama Libya, Obama Doctrine, Assad Doctrine, Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, Syria Al Assad, World News

While the Obama doctrine is currently the focal point of a debate taking place among its proponents and critics, the Assad doctrine reveals two possibilities: that the space afforded for the debate is of a military and security nature.

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Is Obama Really George W. Bush?

Aaron David Miller | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Libya, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Libya, Bush Doctrine, Freedom Agenda, Regime Change, Benghazi, Obama Doctrine, Libya Protests, World News

Has Barack Obama become George W. Bush on foreign policy? If the President doesn't catch a break on Libya, he may well be on a glide path to regime change.

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News Nobody Else Will Tell You!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Congressional Budget Deal, House of Representatives, Tea Party, Mitch McConnell, Decision 2012, John Boehner, Qaddafi, NATO and Libya, Mitt Romney, Donald Rumsfeld, Budget Deal, Obama and Libya, Obama Foreign Policy, Choice 2012, Newt Gingrich, Eric Cantor, Jeffrey Immelt, Barack Obama, General Electrick, Michele Bachmann, You Decide 2012, Obama Doctrine, Climate Change, Libya, Harry Reid, Rumsfeld and Libya, Election 2012, Qadaffi, Gadhafi, Global Warming, Senate, Comedy News

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asserted today that the U.S. mission in Libya was "confused," as he accepted a lifetime-achievement award from the American Chutzpah League.

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Apply the Obama Doctrine to the Trade Problems With China

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: International Trade, Timothy Geithner, Trade Deficit, Subsidies, China, Obama Doctrine, Renminbi, g20, China Renminbi, Business News

We have one trade problem in this country that so far surpasses every other one that it is almost not worth talking about any of the others. The problem is Chinese subsidy practices.

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Obama on Libya: Whatever Happened to Easy Answers?

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.29.2011

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Me and the guys, we stop off for a quick one the other night after softball practice, and there's absolutely nothing worth watching so they put on Obama and we watch Obama.

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Obama's Libyan Gamble

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gamble, Europe, Pentagon, President Obama, United Nations, No Fly Zone, Obama, Iraq, Missile, Days Not Weeks, Britain, No Fly, Military, Un, Cruise Missiles, Rio, Reluctant Warrior, Coalition, Attack, Gaddafi, Terrorism, War, Arab League, Congress, Obama Doctrine, Barack Obama, Admiral Mullen, France, Chris Weigant, Libya, Afghanistan, Vacation, Ghaddafi, Politics News

Rather than selling a war as an existential threat to America, American democracy, freedom, the flag, Mom, and apple pie (as pretty much every president has done for decades), Barack Obama's approach is something new: war as a nuisance.

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Waiting for the Obama Doctrine, Intervallum: The Revolutions in North Africa and Middle East

David Millar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Politics News, Mubarak, Obama Foreign Policy, Obama Doctrine, Barack Obama, Politics News

Doctrines do matter: they shape, guide, inform and inspire our decisions, particularly in a crisis. And the events unfolding in Tunisia, Jordan, and especially Egypt drive this point home.

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Obama's Restraint Doctrine: How The President's Egypt Policy Has Managed To Please No One At All

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The impression that the Obama administration is forever one step behind the unfolding events and chaos in Egypt this week is one left, i...

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Waiting for the Obama Doctrine, Part 1: Do Doctrines Matter?

David Millar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Afghanistan, Obama Doctrine, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Politics News

I believe that the declaration of a transformational American doctrine under Obama is still tenable -- even necessary. We can tread water, but we won't continue to lead the world in this century if we cannot state what we are committed to.

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The Non-Bush Doctrine: Still Waiting for Obama's

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War on Terrorism, Freedom Agenda, Saddam, Preemption, Iraq, Bush Unilateralism, Noriega, Pax Americana, Soviet Union, Cold War, Obama Doctrine, Containment, Clinton, Bush Doctrine, Afghanistan, George H. W. Bush, Milosevic, World News

That the Obama Doctrine and the foreign policy that the president has been pursuing are closer in terms of substance and approach to those advanced by Bush I and Clinton may sound like very good news.

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The Obama Doctrine: Marching That Long Gray Line Into a Gray Fog

Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Blackwell, Bush Doctrine, Obama Doctrine, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Politics News

During World War II, American productivity saved freedom for the world. But in the current era, Obama's economic policies will choke American innovation, and thus the power we project abroad.

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Obama's National Security Strategy Turns Away From Bush Administration Goals

AP | ANNE GEARAN and ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is breaking with the go-it-alone Bush years in a new strategy for keeping the nation safe, counting more on ...

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The Obama Doctrine, or Lack Thereof

Elie Mikhael Nasrallah | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ultimately, foreign policy is a function of national capabilities. Given the limitations of power facing the US economically, militarily and politically, any grand foreign policy "Doctrine" has to wait for better days.

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The Lesson of Iraq and Afghanistan: Next Time Invade France

Steven Clifford | Posted 02.16.2010

Read More: Iraq War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bush Doctrine, Obama Doctrine, Afghanistan War, Comedy News

What countries should America invade in the future? How should we wage war and govern them after a swift victory? Let us apply the lesson we learned from the quagmires of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Vision of a State: Ultra-Federalism in Afghanistan

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Loya Jirga, Afghan Warlords, Federalism, Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Kabul, Democracy, Taliban, Obama Doctrine, Barack Obama, Mike Signer, Nation Building, General Petraeus, Democracy Promotion, Constitution, Afghan Taliban, World News

An ultra-federalist culture would constantly seek to discover and bridge gaps between local systems for administering justice and the official machinery of the state courts.

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Obama Nobel Speech: Reviews, Reaction (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Brokaw Obama Doctrine, Video, Adam Serwer, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Tom Brokaw, Obama Nobel Speech, Obama Doctrine, Barack Obama, Tom Friedman, Politics News

Pundits are reacting to President Obama's speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. On MSNBC's Morning Joe the hosts were surprised that the president ...

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Why Obama's Iran Policy Will Fail: Stuck in Bush Mode in a Changed World

Dilip Hiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama Foreign Policy, Obama Doctrine, George W. Bush Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Obama Iran, Politics News

While the tone of the Obama administration is different from that of its predecessor, and some of its foreign policies diverge from those of George W. Bush, at their core both administrations subscribe to the same doctrine.

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'Obama Doctrine' Praised By Conservatives After Nobel Speech

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel, Obama Nobel Speech, Obama Doctrine, Obama Nobel Lecture, Politics News

Conservatives reacted with shock and disdain to President Obama's Nobel prize, and some attacked his speech on Afghanistan before he even delivered it...

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Afghanistan: Presidential Double Standards and Military Power

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Qaeda, John Bolton, Pakistan, Afghan War, United Nations, Unilateralism, General David Petraeus, Operation Eagle Claw, Lebanon, China, G-20, President Lyndon Johnson, Fred Kagan, Michael O'Hanlon, Peace, Vietnam, Climate Change, Beirut Marine Bombing, Iranian Revolution, Multilateralism, President John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama, Isi, Terrorism, President Harry Truman, Nuclear Proliferation, Obama Doctrine, Cuban Missile Crisis, Afghanistan War, President Ronald Reagan, The Institute for the Study of War, Israel and Palestine, Kimberly Kagan, Afghanistan, Politics News

If any president is going to "cut and run" from an American military engagement he or she better be a Republican. This narrative runs deep in American political discourse.

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