Obama Administration Declines to Credit Missile Defense Shift for Positive Russia Results

Whether it’s intellectual honesty or another case of a liberal refusing to take his own side in an argument, yesterday at the United Nations, several senior Obama advisers flat-out refused to say that last week’s decision to refashion ballistic missile defense in Europe had anything to do with some comments More…

One Last Push to Save Manas Air Base

The Washington Times reports that the Obama administration is sending a high-level delegation to Moscow to save access to a key air base for the Afghanistan war. Two weeks ago, the Russians basically bribed the Kyrgyzstan government to deny the United States use of its giant air base More…

Not Torturing People Is Good Democracy-Promotion Material

Over at Democracy Arsenal, Michael Cohen reads a quote from a prospective adviser to President Obama about “achiev[ing] small, concrete outcomes that advance political freedoms in very tangible ways and do[ing] so, without talking about doing so” and observes:

There is simply no better way to undermine US

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