The leadership in Moscow wasted no time in sending their own special, congratulatory message to President-elect Barack Obama by announcing the deployment of short-range missiles on Poland’s border-a NATO member and strident ally of the United States. President-elect Obama has a tremendous opportunity in the coming months to build a perception of credibility on [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Joe Biden’s recent remarks at a Seattle fundraiser that, if elected, Barack Obama will be “tested” by an international crisis within his first six months in office underscore the importance of both experience and credibility when selecting a commander-in-chief. As Bill and Hillary Clinton both noted during the Democratic primary, now is not the time [...]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Here’s an excerpt from a piece I authored recently in The Weekly Standard:
The African continent is quickly becoming a proxy battleground for Washington and Beijing, as the latter’s appetite for emerging markets and raw materials grows. In July 2008, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “China’s full [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
“If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution.” With this statement, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson provided European and Canadian financial institutions the possibility of an infusion [...]
Friday, September 19, 2008
Check out this new organization which was launched just this week. Be sure to sign the petition. A nuclear-armed Iran is not in the interest of the United States.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
“I can see Russia from my house.” So spoke comedienne Tina Fey impersonating Governor Sarah Palin in a recent Saturday Night Live skit poking fun at the Governor’s foreign policy acumen among other perceived foibles. This skit reflects the actual criticism of Governor Palin’s foreign policy credentials by the Obama campaign and various political and [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Bradley Thayer and I co-authored an article in the September/October issue of the The National Interest entitled, “Russia Goes Ballistic.” Here’s a brief excerpt:
OVER THE next ten to twenty years, the erosion of American nuclear superiority will have major ramifications for the global balance of power. It will place new constraints on our freedom of [...]
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appealed to China and other Central Asian nations to show its support for Russia’s actions in Georgia at a Shangai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tajikistan today. International press offered conflicting analysis, which of course, is no surprise. What is striking, however, is that the break was not along traditional media [...]