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  • September 2008

    • Palin Meets World Leaders

      New York Times  |  Sep 23, 08 6:01 PM CDT

      Palin Meets World Leaders

      (Newser) - Sarah Palin sought to ease concerns about her foreign policy experience by holding her first-ever meetings today with heads of state, the New York Times reports. Palin sat down for private conversations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, and also with Henry Kissinger and national security chief Mike McConnell. "I found her quite a capable woman," said Karzai. "She asked the right questions on Afghanistan." More »

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      Election 2008  • Sarah Palin  • Hamid Karzai  • Alvaro Uribe  • Henry Kissinger

    • Powell Sticks to Fence in Prez Race

      MSNBC  |  Sep 16, 08 6:10 AM CDT

      Powell Sticks to Fence in Prez Race

      (Newser) - Colin Powell has yet to make up his mind which way he'll vote in November, MSNBC reports. Speaking at a forum with four other former secretaries of state yesterday, the Republican said he would let neither his quarter-century friendship with John McCain—nor the "electrifying" prospect of the first African-American president—be the sole deciding factor. More »

    • For McCain, Winning Is War's Only Honorable End

      Atlantic Monthly  |  Sep 10, 08 2:44 PM CDT

      For McCain, Winning Is War's Only Honorable End

      (Newser) - John McCain’s views on war and defending the US were shaped by his Navy father and by his own time in Vietnam, Jeffrey Goldberg writes in the Atlantic , with victory as the only honorable outcome. His father believed public sentiment led to defeat in Vietnam even as a winning plan was taking root. “History repeats itself, huh?” says McCain, aware of the parallels with Iraq. More »

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      John McCain  • Iraq  • McCain 2008  • Iraq exit strategy  • Vietnam  • Vietnam War  • Henry Kissinger

  • July 2008

    • Kissinger Outlines Endgame for Iraq—Without Deadlines

      Washington Post  |  Jul 31, 08 3:18 PM CDT

      Kissinger Outlines Endgame for Iraq—Without Deadlines

      (Newser) - Henry Kissinger outlines his vision for the endgame in Iraq in a piece in the Washington Post, arguing that recent progress makes redeployment of US troops feasible, but "establishing a deadline is the surest way to undermine the hopeful prospects." A fixed deadline would encourage both al-Qaeda and Iran to plan a resurgence, writes the former secretary of state, and it would undermine the necessary diplomacy, which he sees including a regional peace conference. More »

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      Iraq  • troop withdrawal  • Iraq exit strategy  • military strategy  • Henry Kissinger

    • Kissinger: US Must Temper Approach as Russia Evolves

      Washington Post  |  Jul 8, 08 11:41 AM CDT

      Kissinger: US Must Temper Approach as Russia Evolves

      (Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev has more power than some in the West believe, and Russia's political system is still evolving as Vladimir Putin moves from president to prime minister, Henry Kissinger writes in the Washington Post —and it behooves the US to throttle back. "The pace of such an evolution will inevitably be Russian," he writes. "We can affect it more by patience and historical understanding than by offended disengagement and public exhortations." More »

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      Russia  • Vladimir Putin  • Dmitry Medvedev  • foreign policy  • Ukraine  • G8 summit  • US foreign policy  • Henry Kissinger

  • April 2008
  • February 2008

    • Mao Offered US 10M Chinese Women

      BBC  |  Feb 13, 08 9:54 PM CST

      Mao Offered US 10M Chinese Women

      (Newser) - China’s Mao Zedong once jokingly offered the US 10 million women from his poor, overpopulated country to kickstart bilateral trade, the BBC reports. Other talks covered the Soviet threat, but during one chummy meeting with Henry Kissinger in Beijing in 1973, Mao said China’s female influx produced too many children, telling Nixon’s national security adviser, “Let them go to your place.” More »

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      China  • Soviet Union  • Henry Kissinger  • Mao Zedong  • bilateral trade  • Chinese women

  • August 2007

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