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Obama Policies Not Matching Reality. Time to Pull His Nobel Prize and Elect a Non-Interventionist

Jake Diliberto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Yemen, Impeachment, Tomahawk, South China Sea, Intervention, Stephen Walt, Pakistan, Horn of Africa, President Obama, Deficit Hawks, James Madison, Admiral Mike Mullen, Democrats, Barack Obama, Libya, National Debt, Military, Jane Harman, Sudan, George Will, Military Intervention, President Bush, Richard Haass, North Korea, Republicans, Politics News
Jake Diliberto

Obama's attack in Libya is as ill advised and mismanaged as his Afghanistan surge or his domestic stimulus-spending circus. Without the approval of t...

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Afghan Army: The Few, the Proud, the Unprepared

Jake Diliberto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mathew Hoh, Iraq Surge, Heritage Foundation, Obama Afghanistan, War on Terror, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Jake Diliberto, Stephen Walt, War, President Obama, Taliban, 2011, Afghanistan Study Group, State Department, $3 Trillion Spending Plan, Vets for Rethinking Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Afghan Army, Barry McCaffrey, Afghanistan War, General David Petreaus, Marines, Army, David Kilcullen, Pfcs, Stanley McChrystal, Robert Pape, Paul Pillar, US Army, Alqaeda, Slidepollajax, World News
Jake Diliberto

Afghans cannot take control in 2011.

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Cordesman Game Show: So You Think You Can Win This War?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anthony Cordesman, Andrew Bacevich, Bruce Jentleson, Karl Eikenberry, Ann Coulter, Tom Ricks, Stephen Walt, John Nagl, David Petraeus, Fran Townsend, Audrey Kurth Cronin, Csis, Charles Kupchan, Afghanistan War, Jeffrey Goldberg, Robert Pape, Jon Stewart, Gracian Del Castillo, Martin Indyk, Paul Pillar, David Frum, G. John Ikenberry, Christopher Preble, Brian Katulis, Walter Russell Mead, James Glassman, Politics News
Steve Clemons

You really think you can dance WIN THIS WAR?? -- Anthony H. Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy (not really; just hypothetically...

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MidEast Peace: Pessimism from the Right and the Left

Eileen Read | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Lauder, Stephen Walt, Bret Stephens, Jewish Voice for Peace, ForeignPolicy.Com, Wall Street Journal, Jewish, Palestinians, Middle East Peace, Daniel Pipes, J Street, Muslim, Arab, American Israel Political Action Committee, American Jewish Committee, Middle East, Tikun Olam, Jew, John Mearsheimer, Middle East Peace Process, Israel, Aipac, Aaron David Miller, New Republic, Foreign Policy, Israeli, Martin Peretz, World News
Eileen Read

Why is it that merely talking about talking about peace brings instant backlash? Four of the most controversial writers on the Middle East - pessimist...

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Israel vs Turkey: Which Serves US Interests Better?

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaza, Flotilla, Israel, Jews, Anthony Cordesman, Turkey, World, Washington, Stephen Walt, Veto, US Foreign Policy, Gaza Blockade, Ankara, UN Security Council, Cold War, Rand Corporation, Strategic Interests, Steven Cook, Politics, John Mearsheimer, Diplomacy, US, World News
Sharmine Narwani

In the "strategic interest" contest between Israel and Turkey, I suspect the United States will ultimately find more shared values with Turkey -- but only if we can break the dangerous hold Israel has over us.

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Shadow Elite: March to War - Why the Neoconservatives Are Not a Cabal or Conspiracy

Stephen M. Walt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Neoconservatives, Janine Wedel, Obama Birthers, Arianna's Reading, 9/11 Truthers, Stephen Walt, Shadow Elite, World News
Stephen M. Walt

I think there's no question that the neoconservatives played a central role in leading the United States into Iraq, but to characterize them as a cabal or conspiracy is misleading.

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Multi-Thinking About Iran: Let's be Realist

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colin Powell, Hungary 1956, Al Kamen, Stephen Walt, George W. Bush, Foreign Policy Magazine, Hamas, Barbara Slavin, China, Barack Obama, Machiavelli, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Realpolitik, Flynt Leverett, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Cfr, Ukraine, Jimmy Carter, Neoconservatives, Orange Revolution, Richard Haass, World News
Leon T. Hadar

As a "card-carrying realist," I find Haass's recommendation to "promote" -- he does not actually call for "doing" -- regime change in Tehran as running contrary to any sensible realist viewpoint.

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CODEPINK's "Gaza Freedom" Mockery

Eric Trager | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Freedom March, MID-EAST PEACE, Operation Cast Lead, Gaza, Middle East, Stephen Walt, Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, Palestinians, Codepink, Israel, Rafah Border Crossing, Middle East Peace, World News
Eric Trager

CODEPINK's goals have nothing to do with actual Palestinian freedom. Whether CODEPINK is disrupting a Senate hearing or demonstrating in Cairo, its purpose is the same: to vilify American foreign policy.

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Being Anti-Israel and Anti-Zionist Is the "New Anti-Semitism"

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, USS Liberty, Sweden, Gaza War, Aftonbladet, Stephen Walt, President Obama, Anti-Israel, Adl, Holocaust, Norway, World, Hannah Rosenthal, Palestinians, Human Rights, Gaza, Anti-Semitic, John Mearsheimer, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Finland, Racism, Zionism, Denmark, Jews, Richard Goldstone, Tzipi Livni, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, Blood Libel, World News
Sharmine Narwani

I get pretty irritated hearing false cries of anti-Semitism against anyone who criticizes Israel, its human rights crimes, or its settler movement.

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Paul Wolfowitz is Wrong on ForeignPolicy.com

Sean Gilfillan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brent Scowcroft, Iraq War, Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq, Stephen Walt, Kenneth Waltz, Barack Obama, World News
Sean Gilfillan

I just finished reading Paul Wolfowitz' article on ForeignPolicy.com titled, "Think Again: Realism" and concluded that he is completely wrong.

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Pakistan Taliban Problem Overblown: Juan Cole

Juan Cole | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Walt, Pakistan Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Taliban Resurgence, Taliban, Taliban Pakistan, Juan Cole, Advocacy, World News

Readers have written me asking what I think of the rash of almost apocalyptic pronouncements on the security situation in Pakistan issuing from the Ne...

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The Dumbing Down of American Politics

Ira Forman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Jewish Coalition, Israel, National Jewish Democratic Council, Hamas, Joseph McCarthy, Stephen Walt, Barack Obama, Media News
Ira Forman

The American Thinker is one of those hard-edged, right-wing web sites that specializes in flinging filth. It is a publication that has turned the concepts of lying and distortion into art forms.

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Questioning the Patriotism of Freeman's Critics

Ira Forman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Goldberg, Mudslinging, Patriotism, Samuel Johnson, Joseph McCarthy, Stephen Walt, Israel, Chas Freeman, Barack Obama, M.J. Rosenberg, World News
Ira Forman

No side comes out smelling clean when it engages in this mudslinging. However, we progressives should make a particular effort to avoid calling our opponents unpatriotic.

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