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From Robert Kagan’s Mouth to Mitt Romney’s Book

By | 03.17.10 | 10:31 am

I had hoped never ever to return to “No Apology: The Case For American Greatness.” But there’s a clear narrative forming about the Obama administration’s foreign policy on display from Robert Kagan in The Washington Post today, occasioned by the current U.S.-Israel dust-up:

While displaying more continuity than

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Someone Forgot to Tell Democracy Activist That Obama’s Terrible on Democracy Promotion

By | 06.16.09 | 6:30 pm

President Obama says some stuff about the need for respecting human rights and the electoral process in Iran. Then the next day he adds, “The easiest way for reactionary forces inside Iran to crush reformers is to say it’s the U.S. that is encouraging those reformers.” Rep. Mike Pence More…

At the Foreign Policy Initiative

By | 03.31.09 | 8:50 am

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…