Elsewhere, I have taken exception to Samantha Power’s views on foreign policy in the context of what they might imply for an Obama administration in which she could play some advisory role, and now that she is at least temporarily out of the Obama campaign (for the wrong reasons) it may be ...
Following up on Richard’s critique of Samantha Power, I had a few thoughts on Power’s proposal that the United States ought to have intervened to halt the Armenian genocide. Besides the logistical difficulties this would have entailed (consider how long it took us to deploy our ...
My earlier comments on the question of “Ethnonationalism” can be found here. Muller argues in one of his concluding paragraphs: "Partition may thus be the most humane lasting solution to such intense communal conflicts. It inevitably creates new flows of refugees, but at least it ...
Jerry Muller's essay in Foreign Affairs on the enduring power of the rather redundantly named ethnic nationalism (or "ethnonationalism" as he calls it) makes a number of important observations about the phenomenon, but tends to confuse things by the end of his piece, mixing ...
Leave it to John McCain to make Barack Obama appear to have the steady, sane foreign policy. With the Albanians’ declaration of independence in Kosovo, the retirement of Fidel Castro and the recent repudiation of Musharrraf’s PML-Q party in parliamentary elections in Pakistan, there ...
“Shame on you, Barack Obama!” Hillary Clinton has angrily declared in response to some hostile campaign mail on health care and NAFTA his campaign sent out against her. And then there was that picture a campaign aide released to Drudge. Hillary's statements of how proud she was ...
Given the rather grim prospects for antiwar voters this election, it is understandable why many look to Obama and think that they have found someone they can trust. But this is a mistake. It isn’t that Obama is wrong on Iraq, but that he has happened to be right about it basically in spite of ...
In a move befitting his cornball wholesomeness, Mitt Romney endorsed McCain on Valentine's Day, but he did at least refrain in this latest political makeover from declaring his former bitter rival to be his sweetheart. In the space of a week, the candidate whom Romney was willing to fight to the ...
John McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee. There is only one minor problem"many activists and voters in the Republican Party don"t quite seem to believe it and aren"t going to acknowledge it until they absolutely must. The naturally anti-McCain crowd at CPAC gave Romney a narrow ...
In the wake of Huckabee’s crushing success in Kansas, Mitt Romney may be questioning his willingness to suspend his campaign in the name of wartime solidarity. The great Romney-led rebellion was just beginning, fueled by talk radio and activist loathing of McCain, when its figurehead ...
