American politician and diplomat (1932–2021)
Sebastian Mallaby of the Council on Foreign Relations offers some interesting thoughts in The Atlantic about the future of the Chinese economy. Downshifting is always painful, but politicians often make…
Harvard historian Niall Ferguson‘s latest Newsweek column focuses on possible outcomes in the unsettled Middle East. Like former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Ferguson discusses “known knowns,” “known unknowns,” and…
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich brings his campaign to North Carolina on Wednesday (WWAY-TV) Patsy Keever, a Democrat, promises a clean campaign in the 10th Congressional District (Citizen-Times) 11th Congressional…
The New York Times has won another Walter Duranty Pulitzer Prize, it seems. Duranty, you may recall, was the NYT Moscow bureau chief during the early Stalin years who reported…
Michael Barone‘s latest article traces President Obama’s few foreign policy success stories to his continuation of pre-existing policies. Obama expected to be greeted as a hero and champion by the…
Fred Barnes asks a question in his latest Weekly Standard column that’s likely to roil Barack Obama’s supporters on the political Left: is Obama a secret centrist? Last week, Obama…
I’m watching “American Experience” on PBS, in which, so far, is accusing the right wing of killing JFK. It’s early in the show, so maybe things will even out, but…
Much is being made this morning of the late President Gerald Ford’s criticism of George W. Bush “from the grave.” I read the Woodward piece and found it generally unsurprising.…
Josh Manchester wrote this excellent evaluation of Rummy’s service as Sec. of Defense. There is a reason so many of the military’s top brass dislike him. “Like Rumsfeld, Only…
Democrats are already questioning the nomination of Robert Gates as the next Secretary of Defense because of his closeness to the Iran-Contra affair of 1987. And I just heard on…
News reports of the Chavez smear have said that the White House has shrugged the comments off. But my sources say the president has been wandering the White House forlornly,…
WARNING: Long Post We need more troops to do things right in Iraq, but we need to get out of there. The civilian leadership screwed up and we should listen…