I have returned to my blog here to discuss the various news items emanating from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s impending visit to the United States to take part in the United Nations General Assembly. Ahmadinejad requested permission to lay a wreath at Ground Zero and has been scheduled to speak at Columbia University this coming Monday. Although […]
Two years ago, Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearshimer published a paper in the London Review of Books about the disproportionate influence of the “Israel Lobby” on US Foreign Policy. Mearshimer and Walt recently published a book-length version of this essay as The Israel Lobby.
William Grimes published a review of the book in the […]
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal published a fascinating article about the foreign policy teams of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The essential thesis of the article Obama is putting together an army of advisors in an effort to articulate a grand strategy while Clinton is relying on a small group of advisors to advance her incrementalist […]
After an extreme and unfortunate period of inactivity, I have decided to relaunch this blog as a way to comment on the foreign policy debate during the 2008 election. I plan to scrutinize candidate statements and policy on a wide range of subjects. As always, I will continue to provide first-hand dispatches from the Middle […]