[GOP1]Over two days of hearings with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of CentCom, Republican members of Congress settled on a common line of questioning. Did the general have everything he needed to win? Did he have everything More…
When it was launched in March, the Foreign Policy Initiative ‘s mission was always to back robust, whatever-it-takes operations in Afghanistan. I see that FPI’s founders Bill Kristol and Dan Senor are living up to their promise. In a remarkably snide write-up, Kristol spends a lot of time More…
Back on March 31, a new neoconservative think tank called the Foreign Policy Initiative launched with a conference on the subject of “Afghanistan: Planning for Success.” Yesterday and today, the FPI has been holding another star-studded series of panels on the need for a muscular foreign policy in general More…
At the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative conference, Retired Lt. Col. John Nagl took a question on whether the United States has a horse in the Afghan presidential election. Nagl offered that Afghan voters had “good options” including and apart from President Hamid Karzai. Two important factors were that the president More…
I’m at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington for “Afghanistan: Planning for Success,” the first conference put on by the Foreign Policy Initiative, the new neoconservative think tank/messaging operation. Before the first panel kicked off, FPI directors Bill Kristol, Dan Senor and Robert Kagan milled around in the hall, near More…
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