An article today in the unhappy New York Times purports to describe the Republican Party’s "fractious" divisions around John McCain’s foreign policy ideas. Pragmatists are locked in fierce battle with Neoconservatives, among them the "prominent neoconservative" Robert Kagan. Aaargh. This clumsy piece maybe explains why those NYT share prices have been […]
This Guardian piece by Professor Robert Service about NATO/Russia has been noted in Poland. One sentence caught my eye (highlighted): What is more, Russians, from their present and future Presidents downwards, can see no justification for the US to turn states on Russia’s borders into engines of American regional power. […]
Now this is a real Balkanic Eruption. We British used to take fierce criticism in the Bosniac media for our part in the international policy equivocations of the early 1990s which helped allow so much death and destruction across Bosnia. Yet whenever President Izetbegovic tried to make this point in our private […]
I met Michael Dobbs as he started his career in and around Yugoslavia when Tito died in 1980. He has had a glittering journalist’s life since then. He now is part of the Washington Post’s Fact Checker team. And has been busy checking the facts of Hillary Clinton’s visit to Bosnia […]
The squall over Hillary Clinton’s skewed memory of her visit to Bosnia in 1996 recalls to my mind my own no doubt skewed memory of President Clinton’s set-piece speech in Sarajevo’s National Theatre during his subsequent visit with his wife in December 1997. During this visit much of that part of […]
If you get something wrong these days, it can get pointed out out quite fast. But damage has still been done. And it is creepy how such high-profile matters are often corrected without saying that this correction has happened and why. Are we BBC licence-payers not entitled to rather More?
Via Ed Driscoll (who has the best hat in the blogosphere) this account from Lileks of the 1943 Nazi version of Titanic, presented by those National Socialists as explicitly anti-capitalist propaganda. It’s all on YouTube in bite-sized chunks. Here is Part 8: the wicked capitalists continue their drunken scheming as […]
President Bush has given a speech on the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq intervention. Here is the full text. Of course all sorts of people think that this intervention has been nothing but a Disaster which needs all the adjectives from Dave Spart’s thesaurus to describe it. […]
Some good news from Cuba. If the EU wants to do something useful in ‘foreign policy’ it should start strongly promoting this sort of latent networked democracy and so promote and prepare for Cuban Regime Change. That would have two results. It would help end the current misery there faster. And it woiuld […]
They said that if President Bush were re-elected we would see a ruthless clamp-down on dissent and freedom of speech. And they were right!
