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…
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy, one of the Obama administration’s most influential officials shaping Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, will give a talk on Monday at the American Enterprise Institute elaborating on President Obama’s speech and adjusted strategy. It’s hard not to read too much into this, but I’ll try More…
Next week, a coalition of conservative legal groups will host a “Libel Lawfare: Silencing Criticism of Radical Islam,” a conference on how “Islamist lawfare” is imperiling free speech in America. Confirmed speakers include neoconservative foreign policy guru Frank Gaffney, lawyer Andrew C. McCarthy (who turned down an invitation to 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…
In my piece a few weeks ago about the rudderlessness of GOP foreign policy, I mentioned a National Journal item reporting that several of the neoconservative heavies — Bill Kristol, Bob Kagan, former occupation-of-Iraq spokesman Dan Senor — were thinking of opening a “new conservative foreign-policy think tank-cum-messaging institution.” More…
I just talked to Joshua Muravchik, a former American Enterprise Institute scholar who was fired last year in what Jacob Heilbrunn described as a purge of neoconservatives. Muravchik wanted to correct the record on this.
“It was not a purge of neoconservatives,” he said. “It was more mundane and More…
Smart progressives like Christy Hardin Smith, Eric Martin, and Steve Benen are overthinking Richard Perle’s insistence that neoconservative foreign policy doesn’t exist. This is all a childish ruse to get a rise out of people — Perle says something obviously untrue; his ideological opponents Google madly More…
You didn’t think that the 180-proof neoconservatism would still be on the journalistic shelves this year, but discredited Islamophobic quasi-reporter Steve Emerson submits something truly LOL-worthy. Behold:
My old boss Josh Marshall notes that Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations is now an official McCain campaign surrogate. Gleefully, Josh asks:
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