Tag Archives: foreign policy

They Just Don’t Get It

By chris | Published: 22 November 2009
In an interview with the Guardian at the end of a visit to Kabul for the presidential inauguration of Hamid Karzai, the foreign secretary said: “If international forces leave, you can choose a time – five minutes, 24 hours or seven days – but the insurgent forces will overrun those forces that are prepared to [...]
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Afghanistan

By chris | Published: 30 October 2009
I have been meaning to write on Afghanistan for a while and today’s column by David Brooks has finally prompted me to write it. Brooks’ argument is simple. All the military experts are sure we can do this, but they are not sure that President Obama has the the resolve to do it. They do not [...]
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Barack Obama

By chris | Published: 21 September 2009
Reflecting on Paul Krugman’s column today urging Obama to take on the Banks, Michael Tomasky’s assessment yesterday of Obama’s chances of leading in Copenhagen being poor because of his domestic troubles (and the increasing linkage of domestic and foreign policy) and Ross Douthat’s mischievous contrarian argument today that Geirge W Bush was, if not a [...]
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