International Politics
« Previous EntriesCharles Krauthammer: Hate Goblin
Friday, July 18th, 2008Charles Krauthammer is angry for reasons that don’t make a lot of sense.
Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast — a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins — would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials.
What Obama does […]
Bah humbug
Thursday, May 8th, 2008If anyone was wondering what the proper way to commemorate Israel’s 60th birthday is, apparently it involves taking over Washington Square Park and blasting godawful 80’s pop so that it becomes very difficult to study in neighboring buildings. Leave strained analogies to Middle Eastern politics in the comments.
Putin in charge
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Vladimir Putin resigns as president, becomes prime minister. But he’s totally gonna be a hands-off kind of prime minister. Right, guys?
His Hagelness
Monday, April 28th, 2008Just a quick reminder - if you’ve got questions you’d like me to ask Chuck Hagel, you’ve got until 6 PM tonight to submit them. If there’s one I really like in there, I’ll try to get a word in at the Q&A part.
As for the Cohen-Nunn dialogue thing … I think I’m going to […]
Like a big bacchanalia for IR nerds
Monday, April 21st, 2008Yo, check it: Exactly a week from now, I’m going to be attending not one, but two NYU events with former US Senators discussing foreign policy and national security. The first one, called the Cohen-Nunn dialogues, is going to feature former Senators William Cohen and Sam Nunn, Mayor Bloomberg, and former Homeland Security DepSec Admiral […]
Cheney’s the cigarette smoking man!
Friday, April 18th, 2008It’s tempting to say that the White House’s lack of any sort of comprehensive plan for combating terrorism in Pakistan has something to do with the fact that instead of fighting terrorism where it actually exists, America decided to distract itself by inventing a terrorism crisis in a country (Iraq) where it previously hadn’t been […]
The immortal question
Friday, March 28th, 2008Ever since the beginning of civilization, mankind has wondered: Does David Brooks actually believe everything he says? Or is he just making shit up as he goes along?
His latest column does absolutely nothing to answer that question. The whole thing purports to be a refutation of the claim that a McCain presidency would be four […]
Slips of the tongue
Thursday, March 20th, 2008It’s pretty amazing that John McCain can get away with demonstrating his total ignorance on the biggest issue of his campaign by calling it a slip of the tongue. I mean, this isn’t something he had said just once and then corrected it. He’s been repeating it over and over again. If that’s a slip […]
Blackwater Hearings II: Electric Boogaloo
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Hey, remember these guys?
In letters to the Internal Revenue Service, the Small Business Administration and the Labor Department, Waxman (D-Calif.) questioned Blackwater’s classification of its workers as “independent contractors” rather than employees. That designation, which the government has questioned in the past, has allowed the company to obtain $144 million in contracts set aside for […]
That Cracked.com article Peter and I wrote
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008It’s up. Tell all your friends, and I hope you have as much fun reading it as we did writing it.
In other news, last night sucked. I’ll have a more detailed round-up on why it sucked, the myriad ways in which it sucked, and what level of suck we can expect from future primaries […]