As outlined in Carden’s brief letter there is much to like in the democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s proposed foreign policy: end endless wars, climate change, a tougher stance on Israel but […]
Clinton Foreign Policy, the Witches’ Song
The Clinton foreign policy recalls the opening lines of The Witches’ Song in Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the […]
Postscript 2, US Foreign Policy Post 2016 elections
This, the second postscript to US Foreign Policy Post 2016 Election underscores how unprepared, misdirected and dangerous US foreign Policy will be following the November 2016 elections. Democrats Clinton continues to wrap herself […]
China and US Financial Hegemony
I earlier submitted a post regarding the loss of US influence in Latin America and the growing commercial clout of China in that region. This has recently been highlighted by the US […]
Hello again, Libya!
As I wrote in my blog post of 1 August 2012, “Ongoing Arab Spring”, Libya is a ‘work in progress’. The role of the 120 independents has not been clearly defined and […]
Muddle East Policy
Commentary about the recent conference in Tehran by the West interpreted the disagreement amongst the participants, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and Turkey as Iran being out of step with all others and […]
China and the US; Weiqi and Chess; Strategic Thinking vs. Tactical Thinking
In 1972, in Beijing, Henry Kissinger asked Chou En-lai, the then Chinese foreign minister if he thought the French Revolution of 1789 had benefited humanity. “We Chinese feel it is too soon […]
United States Foreign Policy Blunders Update 2 – confrontation vs. accomnodation
In an article from the Asia Times, Mr. Chalmers supports (at great length) essentially what I wrote in my post “Help Wanted – a Political Oculist” regarding the misguided policy of both […]
Nationalism and Wars of Liberation
At the heart of America’s post 9/11 foreign policy is the thesis that all countries are desirous first and foremost of freedom and with it free elections. America sees itself as the […]
Help wanted – a political oculist
A Political oculist? Is there such a thing? Well, if not, perhaps someone should become one, because the United States is in dire need of treatment for political short sightedness. America’s foreign […]
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