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Economic sanctions against Cuba are not very popular in this town. The Cuban regime and their supporters spend a lot of time trying to weaken them. By and large, it is a futile effort to do so. One of the preferred arguments against current U.S. policy is that the sanctions do not work. But Cuba [...]
The lead headline in this morning’s UK papers: Row upon row of empty seats… as tickets sent to foreign VIPs go on the black market. If this is so, it should have been expected no? There is still a global recession underway. However, it is still early in the games, they may [...]
While his point his way off that the “U.S. faces no serious security threats,” former Senator Dodd staffer Michael Cohen’s observation that “the push for bipartisan consensus in foreign policy is a dumb idea” is spot on.
Comity may make for good foreign affairs, but it makes for bad national politics. At times of great national [...]
It is very easy to cast aspersions on political opponents when you have nothing to lose. Most of the time people do this when they have little, if any, logical argument to use against an adversary. Take the case of special interest groups in this town that support normalization of relations, without conditions, with dictatorial [...]
Pick any issue in this town and, chances are, one side or another on that issue is trying to dominate the debate to sway public opinion and elected officials. Spend enough time in court or in the halls of Congress and you’ll quickly learn that no matter is rarely as black and white as the [...]
In March 2011, the first thought that came to mind when the Obama Administration publicly discussed U.S.-Libya support operations – i.e., the writ of the international community – was Yul Brynner’s line in the epic 1956 movie, The Ten Commandments: “So let it be written, so let it be done.”
The POLITICO’s ARENA posed [...]
Earlier today I was reading posts on Andrea Viski’s Nuclear Export Controls blog, and eventually found my way to item on another site related to Taiwan export control issues and Iran.
There is a short story in today’s Tapei Times based on a recently-released WikiLeaks cable. The article, US worried over Taiwan’s exports to Iran, [...]
