Away
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I’ve been on a trip to Europe since last weekend and won’t be back in Washington until December 7. To date, I’ve met with former Washington colleagues Eli Clifton, Daniel Luban, and Ellen Massey in London — all of whom are in various graduate degree programs in the UK. I’ve also given some presentations (on [...]
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Robert Kagan’s Thursday column in the Washington Post, entitled “Musharraf and the Con Game,” is quite noteworthy, if for no other reason than it marks the most explicit (and concise) repudiation of neo-conservative doctrine as laid out by the late US ambassador to the U.N., Jeane Kirkpatrick, at the end of the Carter administration almost [...]
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It’s unquestionably premature to conclude that Pakistan may displace Iran as the most urgent foreign-policy challenge likely to be faced by the Bush administration next year, but it’s beginning to look like a distinct possibility. For evidence, see column in the Sunday New York Times by Tom Friedman in which he somewhat offhandedly asserts, “After [...]
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A particularly cogent and concise answer to David Horowitz’s “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” as well as the fulminations of other neo-conservatives, such as Frank Gaffney and Norman Podhoretz, partial to the phrase, appears in Wednesday’s edition of the far-right Washington Times in the form of an op-ed by Harlan Ullman, one the Times’ token “realists.” Entitled [...]
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In my last post, I argued that the release by the U.S. military of nine Iranians, including two of the five officials seized in Irbil last January, suggested that Pentagon chief Robert Gates and the administration’s “realist” wing was making progress in wresting control of Iran policy from resurgent hawks led by Vice President Dick [...]
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I wrote last month that an important indication of where the balance of power within the administration stands vis-a-vis Iran policy was likely to emerge by the end of October when a decision was due on whether to release the five Irnaians held by U.S. forces in Iraq since they were seized in a raid [...]
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