Foreign Policy
Andrea Mitchell: Obama SOTU Claims ‘Not Close To Reality’
NBC’s Richard Engel Blasts Obama’s Foreign Policy Claims as Wishful Thinking
Sam Stein: Liberal Challengers To Clinton Will Challenge Her Foreign Policy Record, Views
Obama’s ‘Doctrine of Reluctance’
South Sudan, Samantha Power, and the Failure of Liberal Internationalism
Last month in Juba, the capital of the relatively new nation of South Sudan, a small motorcade carrying the U.S. ambassador got entangled with a larger convoy ferrying a senior government official. Frustrated with the delay, a soldier in the South Sudanese convoy got out of his truck, fired two shots into the bulletproof glass of one of the embassy vehicles, and rejoined his own motorcade, which drove away.
So it goes in Juba. Since last December, when an coup allegedly perpetrated against the country’s Dinka president by his Nuer vice president led to Dinka troops going house-to-house in Juba, murdering men, women and children and trucking their bodies out to the bush, a civil war has been underway. The fighting calmed through much of the middle of 2014, but the dry season has arrived. Traditionally in South Sudan, negotiating is for the wet season, and the fighting renews at its conclusion.
Foreign Policy Editor: Obama’s ‘Under-reacting’ Has ‘Caused New Threats To Rise’
Andrea Mitchell Conducts Foreign Policy Interview with Chicago Slumlord
Andrea Mitchell on Friday landed an exclusive interview with Chicago slumlord Valerie Jarrett to discuss terrorist threats against the United States, as well as the resignation of her close friend Attorney General Eric Holder. It was a very enlightening interview.
U.S., U.K. Counterterrorism Strategies Not Aligned
U.S. intelligence officials have criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron’s new counterterrorism measures, which will seize terror suspects’ passports and prevent extremists from returning to the U.K.
Even Rand Paul Has a Strategy to Crush ISIS with Military Force
Even war dove Rand Paul, who was recently attacked by the Democratic National Committee (yes you read that right) for being insufficiently hawkish, has a strategy for defeating ISIS. President Obama, on the other hand, does not.
According to an Associated Press report on Paul’s speech at an Americans For Prosperity gathering in Dallas last week:
[S]ome of the loudest applause for Paul came when he quipped: “If the president has no strategy, maybe it’s time for a new president.”
In an emailed comment, however, Paul elaborated by saying: “If I were President, I would call a joint session of Congress. I would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy ISIS militarily.”
