Entries Tagged as 'Foreign Policy'

The manly men are OUTRAGED!

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Heh.
News photos of President Barack Obama bowing to Japan’s emperor have incensed critics here, who said the US leader should stand tall when representing America overseas. …
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“I don’t know why President Obama thought that was appropriate. Maybe he thought it would play well in Japan. But it’s not appropriate for an American president to bow […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy · Obama · Wingers

Ugly Americans

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Via Atrios, Media Matters serves up your daily slab o’ wingnuttery, in the form of Wesley Pruden’s column about Obama’s overseas sojourn:
He established a new precedent for how American presidents should pay obeisance to kings, emperors, monarchs, sovereigns and assorted other authentic man-made masters of the universe. He stopped just this side of the full grovel to the […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy · Wingers

Bow wow wow

November 14th, 2009 · No Comments

 
I see the bowing thing is driving right-wingers crazy. Good.
After eight years of a president who thought the world should bow down to him, we’ve actually got a president who realizes the importance of tact and displomacy and showing respect to our allies - instead of expecting them to fall in line and pronto because we […]

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Tags: Drudge · Foreign Policy · Wingers

Why I still like Ron Paul

July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Because he’s one of the few, if not the only, in either party with the cojones to write this:
Generations of conservatives followed the great advice of our Founding Fathers and pursued a restrained foreign policy that rebuffed entangling alliances and advised America, in the words of John Quincy Adams, not to “go abroad looking for […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy · Ron Paul

No mention

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Because hey, he didn’t say the actual word!
They do this on purpose, by the way. Most Fox News viewers will not have seen the actual speech in its entirety, and because Fox News is the only “fair and balanced” network to report the “truth,” they will come away with this notion that Obama talked to […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy · Middle East · Obama · Fox News

The re-branding

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

The conservative e-mail this morning is all about Obama showing weakness in the Middle East, his apologizing, his “humiliation.” But of course. They’ve been listening to the never-ending drumbeat on Fox News, where ambiguity must be a French word and anything less than overt threats is un-American.
From your less-partisan observers, the speech is getting pretty rave […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy · Obama

Imposition

June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Drudge has this one linked with his own headline:
Obama: USA cannot impose its values on world
Being that it’s Druge, the insinuation being - how OUTRAGEOUS, of course the USA can (and must!) impose its values on the world! Regardless of cost, right?

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Tags: Foreign Policy

Handshake of doom

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Re: Obama meeting Chavez and actually shaking his hand!!!!!, no one is better at the straight-faced takedown of Fox News talking points than Daniel Larison:
What is imperative and much more important than emphasizing U.S. weakness is manufacturing foreign threats, which Obama then supposedly “fails” to confront and overcome. Having cooked up the Venezuelan menace where […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy · Wingers

Going forward

November 28th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the things that’s been sort of perplexing in the post-election environment is the question: What now?

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Tags: Foreign Policy · Economy · Liberalism · Conservatism · Oil

Not dead yet

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Daniel Larison, who’s rapidly becoming one of my favorite bloggers despite the fact (or perhaps because of it) that he’s an old-school type of conservative, has a remarkably thought-provoking post on how neoconservatism may look dead -but may be bound for a comeback.
Money quote:
Even so, you can guarantee that the alarmists who warned of new […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy · Neoconservatism

Family Guy foreign policy

November 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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Tags: Foreign Policy

They’re just jealous

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Wingers. I suppose so long as you’ve got the AM radio turned full up and Fox News on, you never do have to look reality in the face.

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Tags: Bush Era · Foreign Policy

Knowledge is elitist

September 11th, 2008 · No Comments

It was only a matter of time ’til we got around to this argument, of course, though I’m surprised to hear it from a neoconservative. Though Matt’s explanation sounds about right:
Indeed, they think that this kind of in-depth knowledge is actually harmful. They prefer the judgment of people who have little knowledge of the outside world but […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy · Wingers

Making enemies

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Whatever the country’s shortcomings, can someone please tell me why John McCain is also trying to pick a fight with Russia?

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Tags: Foreign Policy · John McCain

Paying customers

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Maureen Dowd has an amusing take on Obama’s sojourn:
The media behemoth slouching after the senator is scouring his every word, expression, bead of sweat, basketball shot and accessory — are those hiking boots too Bremer? Are the sunglasses too rapper? …
The One, as McCain aides sardonically call Obama, glided through Afghanistan, Iraq and Jordan, girding […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy · John McCain

The exuberant idealist

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Not Barack Obama, says Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek - but John McCain:
The rap on Barack Obama, at least in the realm of foreign policy, has been that he is a softheaded idealist who thinks that he can charm America’s enemies. John McCain and his campaign, conservative columnists and right-wing bloggers all paint a picture of […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy · Obama · John McCain

Why they don’t like us

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Tom Friedman doesn’t get it. Glenn Greenwald does:
If there were a powerful nation (besides the U.S.) that had a leading foreign policy analyst unapologetically justifying the brutal destruction of another country by explaining that its citizens needed to “Suck On This,” and had a leading presidential candidate who sung songs about dropping bombs on the […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy

How to be “serious” about foreign policy

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Glenn Greenwald lists the essentials:
(1) Any government or group that takes money from and is allied with the U.S. is inherently good. Anything they do — including invasions, wars and other acts of violence — is just and “bold.”
(2) Any government or group that opposes the U.S. is inherently bad and anything they do is […]

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Tags: Foreign Policy

Worst of both worlds

December 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Wonks only, below the break.

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Tags: Foreign Policy · War in Iran · History · War on terror