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Obama meddling in foreign affairs endangers US troops

In a news item that broke today, it has been revealed that Obama DEMANDED of Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, that they delay a drawdown of US troops in Iraq until after the election takes...

Foreign Policy 101

I have been impressed with the fact that Barack Obama has traveled to Europe and to Iraq to improve relations with other areas of the world. My only concern is what the voting population of the...

You Know I Am Right

From the comments in another thread:For all the celebration of their culture, the Chinese apparently used a variety of foreign architects to spiff up for the Olympics, including Albert Speer, Jr....

How Not To Project An Appearance of Strength

These guys are such clowns: Condemning as unacceptable what he called Russia’s “bullying and intimidation,” President Bush said Friday that Russia must withdraw its troops from...

Georgia Update

Our shadow president, John McCain, has an op-ed agitating in the WSJ. Typically McCain, no details, just we should help Georgia and remind Russia who they are (have fun with that).Surest sign the...

Sunday Morning Georgia Round-Up

I have done a bit of reading, of both news sites and blogs, and I will let others do the talking:Josh Trevino on where the situation is now:The first thing to understand about the war between...

Third Bush Term

The Politico examines the responses by McCain and Obama to the Georgia/Russian war (or whatever they are going to call it), and sees a difference:Obama’s statement put him in line with the...

This All Feels Vaguely Familiar

From the comments yesterday, the following:I find it depressing that people keep believing Iran is developing nuclear weapons in the face of no evidence to that effect. The only people saying...

I Don’t Understand This Mentality

Via Outside the Beltway, this McCain joke: Presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the...

Anyone Following This?

A terrifying story on the front page of the NY Times:In the last two months, Taliban militants have suddenly tightened the noose on this city of three million people, one of Pakistan’s...

Fareed Zakaria’s GPS

Is on CNN right now, and this is the second week in a row I have watched, and it really is a pretty damned good show.

We’ll Be Fine As Long As Nobody Has To Eat

WaPo:Prices for some crops—such as wheat—have already begun to descend off their highs. As farmers rush to plant more wheat now that profit prospects have climbed, analysts predict...