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The "Goldilocks Principle" and Afghan War Options

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, George Ball, George Kahin, Rand Corporation, Afghanistan Occupation, President Barack Obama, Juan Cole, Lindsey Graham, The Nation, Peter Baker, Afghanistan War, William Polk, American War in Afghanistan, Nato, American Military Forces, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Goldilocks Principle, William Westmoreland, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, New York Times, General Stanley McChrystal, Joe Lieberman, Afghanistan, Lyndon Johnson, Undersecretary of State George Ball, Helene Cooper, Robert Dryfuss, Vietnamization, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

General McChrystal's recommendation for more troops and material has a distinctly Westmorelandian flavor to it. If approved, it could create an additional $40 to$80 billion per annum in war costs.

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Afghanistan: A History of Failed Press Coverage

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Le Nouvel Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski, ABC Nightline, Robert Gates, Columbia Jounalism Review, Janet Wilson, New York Post, American Press Coverage of Afghanistan, Soviet Invasion in 1979, Roger Fisher, Samira Goetschel, Media News
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

For almost 30 years, American press coverage of Afghanistan has been simplistic, misleading, unexamining, accepting and echoing government propaganda, and just plain wrong. There

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Maybe Brzezinski is Half Right?

Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Liberty, Uss-Liberty, Idf, Iran, Israel, Israel Iran, Iran Israel, Politics News
Thomas Lipscomb

Zbigniew Brzezinski made news recently by implying that the US should be prepared to militarily confront any Israeli planes headed for a preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

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Before Jenna: Political Children Working In Media (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Mika Brzezinski, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Maria Shriver, Sargent Shriver, Douglas Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Jfk, Jfk Jr, Slideshow, Political Kids in Media, Political Children in Media, Nancy Pelosi, Alexandra Pelosi, Chris Cuomo, Mario Cuomo, Slidepoll, Jenna Today Show, Jenna Bush, Jenna Hager, Today Show, Media News

The "Today Show" announced this week that they've hired Jenna Bush (aka Jenna Hager) to file stories for them about once a month. "It wasn't something...

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Invisible History, Afghanistan's Untold Story Is no Conspiracy Theory!

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Magical Thinking Perpetrated by the Media, Afghan Expert Selig Harrison, Zbigniew Brzezinski, CBS News’, Gunga-Dan Rather, Kenneth J. Cooper’s Boston Globe Review, Media News
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

It is no conspiracy theory that the U.S. supported the worst possible Islamic terrorists and used them to lure and then keep the Russians in Afghanistan.

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Jimmy Carter, James Baker, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft on Israel-Palestine Conflict

Steve Clemons | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: James A. Baker III, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Landrum Bolling, Brent Scowcroft, Jimmy Carter, Palestine, Israel, Settlements, Hamas, Middle East Peace, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Israel, an ally of the United States, is testing Obama's strength and resolve as much as a number of American foes.

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Clinton Consulted With Republicans, Neocons On Big Foreign Policy Speech

The Plum Line | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Defense, Henry Kissinger, Liberals, Clinton, Joseph Nye, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Brent Scowcroft, Neoconservatism, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Schultz, Center for American Progress, Foreign Policy, Jim Jones, Paul Farmer, State Department, John Podesta, Francis Fukuyama, Neocons, Strobe Talbott, Robert Gates, Foreign Policy Advisers, Hillary Clinton, Richard Lugar, Politics News

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has consulted with a surprisingly diverse ideological bunch in the course of creating the major foreign policy spee...

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US Policies Empower Afghan Taliban: Experts

Christian Avard | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pakistan Taliban, Afghan War, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Taliban, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rachel Maddow, Barack Obama Foreign Policy, Taliban Afghanistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, World News
Christian Avard

Huffington Post caught up with Afghanistan experts Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald and discussed recent developments in Afghanistan. Here's what they had to say.

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The "Just Say NO-Bama Campaign" Part 2: Diplomacy is Neither Timid Nor an Apology

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: John McCain, Twitter, Hungary, Kimberly-Krautter, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, Iranian Riots, Diplomacy, Mike Pence, Apology, Saber Rattling, Julie-Menin, Iran, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Middle East, Poland, Solidarity, Iranian Elections, Timid, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, World News
Kimberly Krautter

Iranians have not asked for U.S. or other Western support other than a desire that our media continue to report their story.

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Obama's Recommended Bedtime Reading: Iranian-Israeli History

Foreign Policy | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Iran, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Francis Fukuyama, Barack Obama, Trita Parsi, Treacherous Alliance, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Barack Obama Iran, Obama Israel Iran, Israel Iran, Obama Israel, Advocacy, World News

Last night, after he had made a grocery-store run, helped put his two kids to bed, and answered reporters' phone calls about Washington's decision to ...

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The Term "Man Caused Disasters" Sounds Weak, but the "War on Terror" Has Always Been Weaker

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Drugs, Mexican Drug Cartel, Osama Bin Laden Capture, War on Terrorism, Ronald Reagan, War on Terror, Osama Bin Laden, Global Contingency Operations, Civil Rights Legislation, U.S., American Democracy, War on Terror Oxymoron, World, World News, Politics News, Arabs, Middle East, Homeland Security Secretary, Subnational Groups, Terrorists, Overseas Contigency Operations, Terror, The Homeland, Clandestine Agents Obama Administration, African Americans, Mexico's Drug War, Obama 44, Homeland Security, Politics, Man Caused Disasters, Mexico, Bush 43, U.S. International Law, America's Psyche, Republican Clerics, Barack Obama, Warfare, War on Poverty, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Central Command, Muslims, Racial Profiling, Lyndon B. Johnson, Janet Napolitano, Republicans, War on Drugs, Poverty, Patriotism, Nationalism, World News
Yvonne R. Davis

President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.

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Top US Officials Urge Dialogue With Hamas

Boston Globe | Bryan Bender and Farah Stockman | Posted 04.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, State Department, Paul Vocker, Hamas, Brent Scowcroft, Politics News

Nine former senior US officials and one current adviser are urging the Obama administration to talk with leaders of Hamas to determine whether the mil...

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Sam Stein

Brzezinski: Obama Risks Getting "Bogged Down" In Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, Obama Afghanistan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brzezinski Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Obama Policy, Afghanistan Policy, Politics News

President Obama's decision to deploy an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan has, as was expected, provoked concern among foreign policy observers ...

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Joe Scarborough Tries To Break The Ice With Mika Brzezinski's Father After Their December On-Air Fight (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media

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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough had co-host Mika Brzezinski's father, Dr. Brzezinski, back on his program after the former National Security Advisor had ca...

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Give Us Netanyahu. Please.

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.10.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine, Israel Elections, Tzipi Livni, Barack Obama, US Foreign Policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ehud Barak, Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gandhi, Israel, National Security Council, Mustafa Barghouti, Netanyahu, Us Gaza, World News
Steve Clemons

Give us Netanyahu. Please. His re-ascension will help Americans realize that the false choice approach the Bush administration had been taking in Israel-Palestine affairs was flawed.

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As a Psychologist, Examining Gender Dynamics on Morning Joe

Stanton Peele | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media

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Stanton Peele

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have both discussed family dynamics on MSNBC's Morning Joe, which they co-host. In many ways, these dynamics seem...

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Brzezinski Says to Joe Scarborough: Read up on TABA, You Might Learn Something...

Steve Clemons | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Brzezinski, Peace Process, Joe Scarborough, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gaza, Middle East, Israel, Taba Negotiations, American Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski spent some time educating the nation -- and Joe Scarborough -- about the way to frame the current Gaza tragedy and what needs to be done.

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Jason Linkins

Zbigniew Brzezinski Calls Joe Scarborough 'Stunningly Superficial'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe, Video, Media News

Things grew only more awkward from there, as Scarborough batted the insult hither and to, while Mika rolled around in her chair, totally chagrined.

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What the CIA Doesn't Need You to Know

Keith Thomson | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Central Intelligence Agency, Ryszard Kuklinski, Michael Hayden, Cia, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Espionage, David Ignatius, Journalism, Soviet Union, Politics News
Keith Thomson

CIA Director Michael Hayden is taking significant steps to soften critics of the CIA's overclassification and other obfuscations -- and perhaps even to rekindle America's confidence in the Agency.

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Seismic Diplomacy

Michael Carmichael | Posted 01.12.2009 | World

Read More: Uri Avnery, Barack Obama 2008, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Shminitsim, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ehud Olmert, Hillary Clinton 2008, Ha'aretz, Yossi Beilin, Israel, Jim Jones, Foreign Policy, Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama Israel, World News
Michael Carmichael

Like a seismic tremor before a volcanic explosion, the pressure for peace in the Middle East is ratcheting upwards on the diplomatic Richter Scale.

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Trouble Buying That Illinois Senate Seat? (A Cheaper Alternative for Holiday Gift-Giving)

David Quigg | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Department of Veterans Affairs, George Washington University, Henry Kissinger, Doris Kearns Goodwin, What Do We Do Now?, Books, Barack Obama, Caspar Weinberger, Eric Shinseki, Cyrus Vance, Stephen Hess, Politics News, George Shultz, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dwight Eisenhower, Team of Rivals, Rod Blagojevich, Book Reviews, Hillary Clinton, Obama Transition, Brookings Institution, Politics News
David Quigg

I cannot be bought. Not for less than 20 bucks. So there's no need to worry that my judgment has been tainted by the fact that a publisher sent me a ...

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Obama's Opening Gambit

Michael Carmichael | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Shimon Peres, Susan Rice, Eric Holder Obama Cabinet, Robert Gates, Ehud Olmert, Brent Scowcroft, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Jim Jones, Foreign Policy, World News
Michael Carmichael

The consensus in America is that US foreign policy is broken. To a great extent, Obama's political mandate is predicated on his promises to repair, refurbish and reconfigure American foreign policy.

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Cold War Hawks Nesting with Obama

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Russia, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Georgia, Pornography of Power, Cold War, Mikheil Saakashvili, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Improved relations with Russia are critical, but it is disquieting that some of Obama's closest advisers have a history of needlessly provoking tension with the Russians during the Cold War days.

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Let Truth Trump Fear in the Jewish Community

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Republican Jewish Coalition, Abner Mikva, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Tony McPeak, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Ehud Olmert, Jerimiah Wright, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Malley, J Street, Robert Wexler, Gallup, RJC Obama, Barack Obama, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Pro-Israel Advocacy, Israel Iran, Politics News
Jeremy Ben-Ami

Let's hope the real victor in 2008 is the Jewish community -- as it finally excises the politics of fears and smears and forces candidates to debate the issues on the merits.

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Seth Colter Walls

Brzezinski: Powell Endorsement A "Comprehensive Indictment" Of McCain-Palin Ticket

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

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Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski tells the Huffington Post that Gen. Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama represents a "comp...

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