Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs | August 2008 Issue
Yesterday, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned.
What do you think? Good for America, bad for America? Good for Democracy?
Or is it only good for the extremists?
Your thoughts are appreciated.
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Gordon C Chang has harsh words for NATO. Harsher words for President Bush.
That’s it? Russia invades a country, and the Atlantic Alliance sets up a commission? Dmitry Rogozin, the Kremlin’s NATO envoy, put it best. He labeled the emergency summit a “mountain that gave birth to a mouse.”
But we shouldn’t blame the Alliance for its [...] Read more »
…but will they? And now the New York Times reports that
the Russian military had been moving launchers for short-range ballistic missiles into South Ossetia, a step that appeared intended to tighten its hold on the breakaway territory.
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Russia has succeeded in capturing South Ossetia and manufacturing a pretext for the attack: the supposed “defense” of the province from the power-hungry Georgians. Now that Russia has South Ossetia in its grasp and it has acquired a launchpad on the Georgian side of the Caucasus Mountains, it will move to bring Georgia’s days of [...] Read more »
By Andrew L. Jaffee, netwmd.com
Russian President Putin’s goon-squad is using “’scorched-earth’ tactics” in Georgia, has promised to annex territory (South Ossetia and Abkhazia), and now is threatening to attack Poland. This is pure madness, but look at the reaction from Europe (or, should I say, lack thereof?), as described by the brave Russian soul, Garry [...] Read more »
Joe Klein over at Time makes a great case for drug testing journalists (though to be fair - they rarely hold real jobs - like arresting criminals, building stuff, growing food, teaching or killing enemies).
Responding to super fly Dr Robert Kagan (Oh! He got game!) and his Putin’s move making WaPo essay Time scribe [...] Read more »
Originally posted over at birdbrain.
In 1936, a country under a totalitarian government hosted the summer Olympics. The regime successfully projected an image during these Olympics that convinced a great number of people that the regime was benign and good. This regime, of course, was the Nazis, who later went on to kill twelve million civilians [...] Read more »
It’s pretty much the case now that any international crisis involving the potential deployment of U.S. military power will be denounced as a “neocon plot” by many in the left-wing press and blogosphere.
Think Progress continues the genre with their sensational post this morning upon news of a possible cessation of hostilities in the Causcasus: “Ceasefire [...] Read more »
Under Putin:
- Russia’s free press has basically been shut down by government censorship;
- Russian journalists have been murdered;
- “The control Putin is building over the country’s corporate sector resembles the kind of fascism instituted by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini or Spain’s Francisco Franco…”
- Use of torture by Russian troops in Chechnya is rampant;
- Putin has [...] Read more »
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”
~WInston Churchill
The Russians are tricky. They have suckered the world into thinking that they are a more peaceful, progressive nation than they were [...] Read more »
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