Twitter Revolution

17Jun09

I’m generally enthusiastic about the potential of new communication technologies like twitter, facebook, etc, to facilitate political uprising. But it should be mentioned that it leaves us highly vulnerable to misinformation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an awful person and the sooner he’s off the world stage the better, but that doesn’t transform his opponents into automatically honest [...]

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Tags: Iran, Twitter Revolution

Listen, When Woodrow Wilson…

05Apr09

Anyone else get the sense that George Will is just becoming a repository for historical anecdotes?
On ABC This Week, Will formulated a dozen little quips and snide responses that simplistically described Obama’s foreign policy. Never once did I get even a whiff of the alternative policy we should be pursuing.
Sure it would folly hardy [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, George Will, Iran, North Korea

John Bolton’s One Point Plan to Save the World

31Dec08

So this was the headline from the Think Progress blog yesterday afternoon
Bolton: Gaza Crisis Means We Should Attack Iran Now
We are pretty clearly at the point where it makes more sense for John Bolton to let us know when some event doesn’t demonstrate the need to bomb Iran. As it stands now we can safely [...]

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Tags: Bomb Iran, Iran, John Bolton

Cigarettes to Iran

10Jul08

I been meaning to find an issue where I could agree with John McCain, and thus prove my independent thinker status.
Here is goes: I thought John McCain’s suggestion that America was selling cigarettes to Iran to kill Iranians was half way funny, and not a particularly big deal.
What’s he supposed to say when [...]

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Tags: Iran, John McCain, Trade with Iran

Experience Endorsing Bad Ideas

01Jul08

Yesterday I attend the foreign policy panel at CAP-Action Fund yesterday for their McCain University. (A bunch of wonks talking trashing about John McCain)
It was pretty good discussion over all, but one point brought up in the introduction was that McCain is more of a Neo-Conservative then George W. Bush. In fact, unlike Bush, [...]

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Tags: Bomb Iran, Center For American Progress Action Fund, Foreign Policy, Iran, John McCain, McCain University, Neoconservative, North Korea

Brave Foreign Policy Answers on Iran

24Jun08

I thought this was a strong point from Atrios
What’s amazing about all of this bomb Iran talk is that there doesn’t seem to be any genuine (if crazy) military goal as commonly understood. Sure there’s talk of bombing the nuclear program, but basically the bombing talk is about bombing for its own sake to [...]

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Tags: Atrios, Bomb Iran, Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons

John McCain’s So Old He Doesn’t Think Any Ideas Are New

03Jun08

Here is John McCain yesterday getting all old grumpy guy on Barack Obama:
“Even so, we hear talk of a meeting with the Iranian leadership offered up as if it were some sudden inspiration, a bold new idea that somehow nobody has ever thought of before,” McCain said.
It’s really great John McCain is old enough to [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Iran, John McCain, Xerxes

Obama Speech Part 2.

19Mar08

I actually thought Obama’s speech was a very powerful and inspiring message. This section of the speech was especially powerful.
We can play Reverend Wright’s sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Barack Obama Speech on Race, Iran, Iraq, John McCain