With his eyes turned more towards reelection than America’s future and standing in the world, Obama (and his foreign policy speech writers) may have had his keyboard stuck on copy/paste. By seeing through eyes that neglect America’s unique “exceptionalism” in the world, Obama Administration foreign policy have threatened our stature on the world stage. In hitting the “reset” button, Obama has failed to consider the ultimate result in that reset on America and the world.
Good morning, World. Did you notice May 7, 2012?
May 7, 2012 by
In case you didn’t notice, world politics shifted just a little this weekend. How dramatically is yet to be seen.
Thumbing their nose at a Europe-wide policy of spending no more than revenues bring in (also known as “austerity” and “what makes sense”), […]
Vladimir Putin: the “most interesting man in the world,” or the beginning of a personality cult?
September 29, 2011 by
Vladimir Putin: the man, the myth, the … next president of Russia? In the post-Clinton age, if there’s one person who appears on the Drudge Report more than Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, it’s Mr. Putin. If it’s not in relationship to international affairs and Russia, he appears there in some daring, manly activity, occasionally […]
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming…
August 25, 2011 by
Remember Red Dawn? You know: height of the Cold War, the Russians attack, and a bunch of teenagers fight back? (or something vaguely like that). The Russians have a better idea for taking over North America, and no one’s going to get shot in the process. Russia has unveiled an ambitious plan to build the […]
firing a mayor, part 2: still, only in Russia.
September 29, 2010 by
On the way to work on Monday I listened to a report on NPR about the sacking of the Mayor of Moscow, Russia, by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Where I’m from, mayors are independently elected officials, so it struck me as similar to President Obama firing Mayor Bloomberg of New York. Apparently, the Mayor in question–Yury Luzhkov–is […]
firing a mayor: only in Russia
September 28, 2010 by
Just heard this on NPR: President Medvev fired Moscow’s mayor. Can he even do that? Guess democracy isn’t the same world over. More later…
FBI snags a ‘femme fatale’ in spy ring
June 30, 2010 by
Image via Wikipedia How often does the FBI snag a Russian spy ring that includes all the glamor of a bond girl, the secret signals of cold war espionage, and the prosaic reality that spies are just like us? Answer: not often enough. This kind of news is just too fun…especially when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is doing the […]
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