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McChrystal Reportedly Resigns

By | 06.22.10 | 5:11 pm

Joe Klein of Time just told that to CNN. Will President Obama accept his resignation if so?

Update: On Twitter, Joe clarifies through Time Magazine that McChrystal offered to resign. Hasn’t actually tendered his resignation.

Foreign Policy Divides Over … Not a Whole Lot

By | 07.21.09 | 11:40 am

It’s been awhile since the last bureaucratic/journalistic freakout over Jim Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, and so Joe Klein fills the gap by talking about the low, low policy stakes involved:

The interesting thing here is that there are no real policy disagreements among the Obama foreign

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Obama Seems to Embrace U.S.-Iraq Deal; All Troops Home in 2011?

By | 10.23.08 | 4:56 pm

Something else that’s interesting in Joe Klein’s interview with Sen. Barack Obama.

Yesterday we saw John McCain severely misrepresent what the impending U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) says, incorrectly insisting that its date-certain deadlines for U.S. troop withdrawals are based on “conditions” on More…

Respect The Petraeus

By | 10.23.08 | 3:40 pm

Joe Klein conducted a fascinating interview with Sen. Barack Obama recently, and he’s just put the transcript online.

There’s a lot to sift through, particularly from a foreign-policy perspective. But check out Obama’s account of his July meeting in Baghdad with Gen. David Petraeus, now head of U.S. Central More…