Peter Scoblic, the executive editor of the New Republic magazine, will soon become a senior policy adviser on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Scoblic’s a nuclear weapons expert — he came to TNR seven years ago from Arms Control Today and wrote an excellent book, U.S. vs. Them, More…
That’s according to a just-released statement from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
The White House has indicated that the full treaty will be completed and submitted to the Senate in early May. I plan to begin hearings on the treaty in the coming weeks,
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee announces that he’ll hold a hearing on counterterrorism in Yemen when the Senate reconvenes in the middle of the month. A good idea; weird that it took Kerry eleven days to say something about the failed attempt at blowing up Northwest Flight More…
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is no fan of the Afghanistan escalation. “Let me get this straight,” he said, the surge in Afghanistan is about U.S. security interests?
“Our overriding objective, of course, is ensuring al-Qaeda and other transnational extremists don’t reestablish a sanctuary in Afghanistan,” Gen. David Petraeus replied. “And More…
During his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning, Jack Lew, the deputy secretary of state, praised Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Eikenberry for “their commitment for truly joined civilian-military efforts are absolute” in Afghanistan. Accordingly, he said, the U.S. troop increase has to be matched by “fully More…
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan and Pakistan — in which Deputy Secretary Jack Lew, who has the portfolio for managing the State Department, is joining Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry — by emphasizing two themes: “How Afghan governance will improve, More…
As I reported yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opted to invite Gen. David Petraeus to testify alongside Ambassador Karl Eikenberry this morning in order to get a sense of the place of Pakistan in the Obama administration’s revised Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. It’s a really valid question. Eikenberry and Gen. Stanley More…
Now that the House and Senate armed services committees have heard from Amb. Karl Eikenberry and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, there are two more hearings to go: the Senate Foreign Relations Committee tomorrow morning, and then the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. Well, two for Eikenberry. McChrystal will have a More…
During today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) tried to drill down on the pace of withdrawal from Afghanistan after the transition phase to Afghan control begins in July 2011. Menendez suggested that the Obama administration is deceiving the public More…
Here’s a point that might have gotten lost in the shuffle yesterday during coverage of the marathon Afghanistan testimony from Secretaries Clinton and Gates and Adm. Mullen. The biggest inflection point in President Obama’s West Point speech was the line where he expressed what U.S. and allied troops, broadly More…
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