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Gaffes Can Reveal Truths

By | 07.27.09 | 9:31 am

Vice President Biden was pretty … real about Russia in a Wall Street Journal interview published this weekend, and it’s being played as something of a gaffe. Among Biden’s observations:

“Russia has to make some very difficult, calculated decisions,” Mr. Biden said. “They have a shrinking population base,

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Benchmark Agonistes

By | 03.30.09 | 1:32 pm

I really, really love Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog. For my money, it’s the most rigorous and interesting conservative group blog about international affairs, presenting as it does the perspective of ex-policymakers in previous Republican administrations. Their criticisms of the Af-Pak strategy — see here, here More…

What Is Peter Feaver Smoking?

By | 02.04.09 | 5:07 pm

Peter Feaver, a political scientist at Duke University who served on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, has always struck me as a knowledgeable, reality-based guy. His work on civil-military relations is considered top-notch, for instance. When he joined Foreign Policy’s blog More…