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EU’s New “President” and “Foreign Minister” finally appointed
The27 EU Heads of State and Government, after much horse-trading, have finallyunanimously agreed on two names: The Belgian prime minister HermanVan Rompuy has been appointed as the first ever permanent…
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Bolton on Obama’s Afghanistan Decision: ‘This Is Like a Slow-Motion Trainwreck’ – Greta Van Susteren | On The Record With Greta – FOXNews.com Tom Smith
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: President Obama holds a high-level meeting with his national security team. On the table, the war in Afghanistan. Now, President Obama was given four…
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Barack Obama ‘risks Suez-like disaster’ in Afghanistan, says key military adviser Tom Smith
David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading authorities on counter-insurgency and an adviser to the British government as well as the US state department, said Obama's delay in reaching a…
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Will Obama apologize for Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Tom Smith
That is a very hard question. One would have to be able to figure out whether, all things considered, it would be to his political advantage to do so or…
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Afghanistan and IraqMike Rappaport
As President Obama is now considering what to do in Afghanistan, a few words about the two wars seem in order. I had always thought the two wars were very…
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Obama Getting WorseMike Rappaport
The United State's abstention from the Security Council vote on a nuclear free Middle East was a bit of a wake up call for me. Well, "a wake up" call…
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Bruce Ackerman sows confusion Tom Smith
Boy this is a tough one. Professor Bruce Ackerman of the Yale Law School, famous for his theory in which things that you would previously have thought were unconstitutional become…
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The failed Iran policy Tom Smith
Here.
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When the world’s only superpower doesn’t have what it takes to act like the world’s only superpower Tom Smith
The Bush doctrine doesn't look so bad now, does it? A nutcase regime in Asia is about to get nuclear weapons and not long after that the missiles to send…
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ObamaMike Rappaport
A good analysis of Obama's UN speech here. An excerpt: His criticisms of our country are now part of a troubling routine, so much so that Obama is now winning…