Foreign Policy News

The People Who Brought You The Iraq War Attack Joe Sestak (And Other Dems)

4:20 pm EST July 12th, 2010 | Conservative | 9 Comments

kristol Bill Kristol, former Quayle lackey and Iraq War agitator, is pushing a new group that will try to get Americans killed.

Leading conservatives will launch a new pro-Israel group this week with a scathing attack on Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, the first shot in what they say will be a confrontational campaign against the Obama administration’s Mideast policy and the Democrats who support it.

The Emergency Committee for Israel’s leadership unites two major strands of support for the Jewish state: The hawkish, neoconservative wing of the Republican Party, many of whom are Jewish; and conservative Evangelical Christians who have become increasingly outspoken in their support for Israel. The new group’s board includes Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol and Gary Bauer, the former Republican presidential candidate who leads the group American Values, as well as Rachel Abrams, a conservative writer and activist.

Admiral Sestak should be honored to be attacked by morons as bottom-feeding as these.

Topic: Bill Kristol, Foreign Policy, Joe Sestak, The Emergency Committee for Israel

AIPAC Issues Marching Orders, Who Will Listen?

12:39 pm EST March 15th, 2010 | World | 27 Comments

It will be interesting to see which politicians, especially Democratic ones, ask AIPAC “how high” after the group has issued these marching orders to criticize the administration on their response to Israel’s insult to the United States.

Israel is our ally, and they should start acting like it. One way to do that would be not engaging in activity harmful to the security of American forces.

Topic: AIPAC, Foreign Policy, Israel

Israel’s Settlement Actions Causing Military Problems For America

2:43 am EST March 15th, 2010 | World | 20 Comments

So says General Petraeus.

Sec. Clinton was pretty blunt about this:

“The announcement of the settlements on the very day that the vice president was there was insulting,” Clinton said in an interview with CNN Friday. “It was just really a very unfortunate and difficult moment for everyone, the U.S., our vice president who had gone to reassert America’s strong support for Israeli security, and I regret deeply that that occurred and made that view known.”

Clinton called “to make clear that the United States considered the announcement to be a deeply negative signal about Israel’s approach to the bilateral relationship and counter to the spirit of the vice president’s trip,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters.

“The secretary said she could not understand how this happened, particularly in light of the United States’ strong commitment to Israel’s security and she made clear that the Israeli government needed to demonstrate not just through words but through specific actions that they are committed to this relationship and to the peace process,” he said.

Israel keeps claiming that greenlighting these settlements right when Vice President Biden came to town was just a mistake. Bull.

Topic: Foreign Policy, Israel

Obama Failed In China!

1:38 am EST November 27th, 2009 | News | 11 Comments

James Fallows documents the FAIL. If this is fail, more FAIL please.

Topic: Foreign Policy, President Obama

I Can Haz Diplomacy? (Honduras Edition)

4:20 pm EST October 30th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 6 Comments

If this had happened under the watch of the previous president, we wouldn’t have a diplomatic agreement in Honduras, we would be dealing with a Honduran insurgency…

Topic: Foreign Policy

As Cheney Rears His Head

1:38 am EST October 22nd, 2009 | News | 1 Comment

Failed former vice president Dick Cheney, torture advocate and co-architect of a foreign and military policy that killed thousands of Americans, again tries to lecture President Obama on how to his job. Cheney began his remarks with praise for Donald Rumsfeld, which should tell you right off the bat that the remarks of this most filthiest of “humans” should be ignored.

Topic: Dick Cheney, Foreign Policy

Dear Secretary Hillary Clinton, Sometimes I Love You

11:00 am EST August 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 27 Comments

I’ve clearly had my differences with Sec. Clinton (like all of 2008!) but sometimes she wins. Like here, where she just laughs her ass off at the mere mention of foreign policy moron John Bolton:

Topic: Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, North Korea

Eric Cantor Undermines U.S. Foreign Policy On Foreign Soil

10:08 am EST August 7th, 2009 | Republicans | 13 Comments

Not too long ago Republicans called this sort of behavior treason.

Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) took a swipe at President Barack Obama’s Mideast policy in Jerusalem on Thursday, telling reporters he was worried about the administration’s direction in its attempts to forge a settlement in the region.

‘We’re here to try and make things better; we are here because we are concerned,’ Cantor said. ‘We are concerned about what the White House has been signaling as of late in their desire to push through in terms of a Middle East peace plan.’

Topic: Eric Cantor, Foreign Policy

They Wanted To Blow Up Those Iranians They Claim To Love

11:08 am EST June 16th, 2009 | News | 40 Comments

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Glenn Greenwald makes a solid point about the conservative position on Iran.

Much of the same faction now claiming such concern for the welfare of The Iranian People are the same people who have long been advocating a military attack on Iran and the dropping of large numbers of bombs on their country — actions which would result in the slaughter of many of those very same Iranian People. During the presidential campaign, John McCain infamously sang about Bomb, Bomb, Bomb-ing Iran. The Wall St. Journal published a war screed from Commentary’s Norman Podhoretz entitled ‘The Case for Bombing Iran,’ and following that, Podhoretz said in an interview that he ‘hopes and prays’ that the U.S. ‘bombs the Iranians.’ John Bolton and Joe Lieberman advocated the same bombing campaign, while Bill Kristol — with typical prescience — hopefully suggested that Bush might bomb Iran if Obama were elected. Rudy Giuliani actually said he would be open to a first-strike nuclear attack on Iran in order to stop their nuclear program.

Imagine how many of the people protesting this week would be dead if any of these bombing advocates had their way — just as those who paraded around (and still parade around) under the banner of Liberating the Iraqi People caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of them, at least. Hopefully, one of the principal benefits of the turmoil in Iran is that it humanizes whoever the latest Enemy is. Advocating a so-called ‘attack on Iran’ or ‘bombing Iran’ in fact means slaughtering huge numbers of the very same people who are on the streets of Tehran inspiring so many — obliterating their homes and workplaces, destroying their communities, shattering the infrastructure of their society and their lives. The same is true every time we start mulling the prospect of attacking and bombing another country as though it’s some abstract decision in a video game.

Much of conservative foreign policy resembles a crude video game, and of course their own lives are never on the line so they feel safe in advocating the nuttiest strategies around. The problem was that during the Bush era they actually had the power to do so. Result: Thousands dead and global instability.

Topic: Foreign Policy, Iran