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14 Dec 2009 16:28:16 GMT
Team of Rivals; Barack Obama and John McCain couldn’t agree more on Afghanistan. Except when they don’t.
It wasn’t long ago that John McCain was making the case that an Obama presidency could be dangerous for America. The question facing voters, he warned in October 2008, “is whether this is a man who has what it takes to protect America from ...

14 Dec 2009 16:28:16 GMT
The Post-Imperial Presidency; Even as Obama increases troop levels, he is scaling back American foreign policy.
If you take just one sentence out, Barack Obama’s speech on Afghanistan last week was all about focusing and limiting the scope of America’s mission in that country. His goal, he said, was “narrowly defined.� The objectives he detailed were ...

14 Dec 2009 16:28:16 GMT
No Exit; By 2011, we’ll be gone from Iraq and going from Afghanistan. Don’t believe it.
When it comes to war, Americans are fond of quoting military thinkers like Sun Tzu and Clausewitz. But the strategist with the most to say about the current U.S. foreign-policy predicament may be Jean-Paul Sartre.

14 Dec 2009 16:28:15 GMT
Green Alert; As climate change accelerates, so too will hunger, poverty, and perhaps even social unrest.
As the world edged into financial crisis, there were repeated warnings that we were headed for disaster. In the end, disaster struck. In many ways, the challenge of climate change has a similar feel, and the alarm bells are ringing just as ...

14 Dec 2009 16:28:12 GMT
The Principle Of The Thing; How America’s commitment to democratic values is waning in the age of Obama.
The Principle of the Thing Although President Obama’s address to the nation served its main purpose—articulating the national-security rationale for the use of force in Afghanistan—there was one unfortunate disconnect. Obama did not link his ...

14 Dec 2009 04:46:23 GMT
Obama's War.
The President offered a reasoned case for expansion in Afghanistan. But Americans need inspiration as well. "If I did not think that the security of the United States and the safety of the American people were at stake in Afghanistan," ...

14 Dec 2009 04:46:23 GMT
Shrinking The War on Terrorism
Obama's foreign policy takes a narrower view of American power--we can't fight everyone all at once. To understand Barack Obama's Afghanistan decision, it's instructive to go back to one history-shifting sentence, uttered by his predecessor ...

14 Dec 2009 04:46:22 GMT
Floating Island.
With its biggest ship ever, Royal Caribbean plans to give travelers a more landlike trip. For an industry rife with superstitions--it's bad luck to rename ships, step aboard with your left foot, sight a redhead before you sail--Friday the ...

10 Dec 2009 17:01:12 GMT
IN PRAISE OF RADICALISM
CHRIS TROTTER Bill English commands National's advisers to be politically pragmatic. But, as the poet Robert Browning wrote: "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" -------------------- G areth Morgan - radical. A ...

10 Dec 2009 17:01:12 GMT
EDITORIAL
What a choice - Copenhagen or New Plymouth. -------------------- P rime Minister John Key told the well-to-do audience at at a recent International Business Forum function in Auckland that he had been planning to go to the Fleetwood Mac ...

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