Posts Tagged ‘Diplomacy’
On the Coming Fall of the American Empire
Campaign for Liberty | By Daniel McCarthy | 23 July 2010 Bruce Fein's American Empire: Before the Fall is not for the faint of heart. "You, your family, your friends, your professional colleagues, and your elected and appointed officials in the nation's highest circles will fiercely resist the truths this book expounds," the author warns. He's [...]
Britain’s Top Afghan Diplomat Quits
Guardian | By Simon Tisdall | 21 June 2010 Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles: a casualty of Afghan policy war The British special envoy's scepticism about the US-led surge meant he had to go. Being proved right will be cold comfort. The sudden departure of Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Britain's special envoy to Afghanistan, represents another body blow [...]
The Obama Doctrine, Revisited
The American Prospect | By Spencer Ackerman | 7 April 2010 The administration's effort to transform American foreign policy has been much more successful abroad than it has been at home. Several weeks before President Barack Obama announced an escalation of the Afghanistan War at West Point, a group of journalists and think-tankers met [...]
