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July 2008
- Obama Prays at Wailing Wall
  
  newser | Reuters | 11 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  Barack Obama finished his Israel trip with a pre-dawn visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall this morning, Reuters reports. The candidate, wearing a skullcap, placed a prayer he had written in the wall as a rabbi read from a psalm. A heckler shouted "Jerusalem is not for sale"—but was drowned out by chants of "O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Israel • foreign policy • Berlin • Jerusalem
- European Demands Vex Obama Camp
  
  newser | Der Spiegel | Jul 23, 08 3:30 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama’s campaign is frustrated that his Berlin visit tomorrow is being over-analyzed, Der Spiegel reports—with Europeans complaining that he’s giving a mere stump speech, or that his address might lack substance. Obama is dropping in to outline his vision for trans-Atlantic alliances—he’s expected to give some tough love—and his people say they don’t appreciate the guff. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • European Union • foreign policy • Berlin • media bias • Brussels
- Obama Appears Cocky, Presidential
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 23, 08 12:19 PM CDT
  
  The better Barack Obama’s foreign excursion goes, the more nervous Republicans get, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Images of John McCain happily sharing a golf cart with Bush 41 don’t contrast well with images of Obama happily sharing a helicopter with David Petraeus. But there is also an element of arrogance in the trip. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • Israel • Iraq exit strategy • foreign policy • Jordan • media bias • American media
- Obama Meets With Israeli Leaders
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 23, 08 7:10 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama got an early start in Israel today, breakfasting with Ehud Barack and meeting Shimon Peres and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu before a stop at Yad Vashem, to lay a wreath at the Holocaust memorial, the New York Times reports. Peres greeted him warmly, saying he hoped for a “great president of the United States. That is the greatest promise for us and the rest of the world.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Israel • foreign policy
- Dear Obama: Oppose Iran and We'll Love You
  
  newser | New Republic | Jul 21, 08 8:58 PM CDT
  
  On the eve of Barack Obama’s visit to Israel, Yossi Klein Halevi writes to him in the New Republic about Israel's fears. Like many nations, Israel is well-inclined towards Obama: It has no fear of his Muslim middle name and recently hailed his description of Israeli security as "sacrosanct." Yet Israelis worry that as president, Obama would fail to deter Iran’s nuclear ambitions. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iran • Israel • Israel and Palestinians • nuclear weapons • foreign policy • US foreign policy • nuclear arsenal
- Obama Meets Afghan Prez
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 20, 08 7:18 AM CDT
  
  World-touring Barack Obama sat down with Hamid Karzai today, joining the Afghan president for lunch at his Kabul palace. Although Obama criticized the leader's government as recently as last week, he expected to steer clear of arguments in today's meeting, Reuters reports. "I'm more interested in listening than doing a lot of talking," he said before his US departure. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Afghanistan • foreign policy • Hamid Karzai • Kabul
- Obama Relying on Own Mini State Dept.
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 18, 08 8:27 AM CDT
  
  As Barack Obama makes his first overseas visit as the presumptive Democratic nominee, the New York Times spotlights the 300-strong army of foreign policy advisers that keep the candidate abreast of world affairs. Obama's operation is run like a mini-State Department, the Times notes, with senior aides taking responsibility for regions and overseeing 20 different teams. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • diplomacy • foreign policy • Denis McDonough • Richard Holbrooke
- Old World Thinks He's the Messiah
  
  newser | Financial Times (UK) | Jul 11, 08 7:39 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama's trip to Europe this month might not do much for his electoral chances at home. But the Old World doesn't care, writes Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens; when the candidate arrives he "can expect to be greeted as a messiah." Europeans have been starstruck by Obama, and they seem to think that this November's election is little more than a formality. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • election 2008 • Europe • diplomacy • foreign policy
- Kissinger: US Must Temper Approach as Russia Evolves
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 8, 08 11:41 AM CDT
  
  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 • foreign policy • Dmitry Medvedev • Ukraine • G8 summit • US foreign policy • Henry Kissinger
- The Decider Has Time for a Last Hurrah
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 1, 08 10:24 AM CDT
  
  It’s comforting to think of George W. Bush as yesterday’s news, but the Decider is still very much in office and itching to tie up loose ends. These “loose ends” might include signing a treaty with Iraq, or continuing his quixotic quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace, or, more terrifyingly, attacking Iran, writes Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Iran • Bush administration • foreign policy • US foreign policy • Bush legacy
June 2008
- Obama Show Coming to Europe, Mideast
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 28, 08 3:53 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama will travel to Europe and the Middle East this summer in his first international tour as a presidential candidate, he announced today. Designed to offset criticism that he lacks foreign policy experience, the trip will include stops in Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and Britain, the New York Times reports. He will also visit Iraq and Afghanistan, but is keeping details secret for security reasons. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Middle East • Obama 2008 • Europe • foreign policy • tour
- GOP Has Female VP Possibles, Too
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 23, 08 4:25 PM CDT
  
  In a post-Hillary age, a female candidate comes as less of a surprise on the national stage. Here are three women who could stand for John McCain’s vice-presidential slot, per Politico: Carly Fiorina: The former Hewlett-Packard exec is already a trusted adviser and constant McCain surrogate, but she’s no social conservative and has no foreign-policy expertise. CEOs aren’t too popular during recessions, either. More »
  
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  Hillary Clinton • John McCain • foreign policy • Carly Fiorina • social conservatives • Sarah Palin • Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Vietnam Stays With McCain
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jun 23, 08 2:35 PM CDT
  
  After 5 years as a POW, John McCain returned to Vietnam in 1974 and 1985, trips that inextricably linked him with the war in American minds. They also helped color the way he thinks about foreign policy and helped him learn to make amends with onetime enemies when it meant closure on MIAs. The Boston Globe looks at the candidate's evolution through the prism of that experience. More »
  
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  John McCain • foreign policy • Vietnam • POW • MIA • POW/MIA • Walter Cronkite
- Why 'Cowboy' Shouldn't Be Political Insult
  
  newser | Texas Monthly | Jun 23, 08 2:22 PM CDT
  
  The word “cowboy” doesn’t deserve the derogatory treatment it’s received in recent years, Elmer Kelton writes in Texas Monthly. With critics labeling President Bush’s foreign policy “cowboy diplomacy,” the term that was once a sign of respect is now used to evoke a "shoot-from-the hip" individual who makes reckless decisions—the opposite of working cowboys like Kelton’s father, he writes. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • foreign policy • Wild West
- McCain's War Views Echo '74 Thesis
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 15, 08 9:24 AM CDT
  
  “A man’s ability to perform credibly as a prisoner of war” is founded on “a strong belief in his nation’s foreign policy,” John McCain wrote in a 1974 essay that shows the seeds of the candidate's views on public support for war. The New York Times takes a look at the essay, which was written during his time at the National War College—a time McCain says was key in the development of his views on Iraq, . More »
  
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  John McCain • Iraq war • foreign policy • Vietnam War • propaganda
May 2008
- Miami Cubans Toe Softer Line on Embargo
  
  newser | Time | May 23, 08 9:43 AM CDT
  
  In his speech in Miami this week, John McCain talked the familiar macho talk on Cuba, taking a hard line on the embargo and ridiculing Barack Obama for suggesting that he might open a dialogue with Raul Castro. That may still play with older exiles, Time notes, but a growing number of younger Cuban-Americans don't believe the embargo has any hope of toppling the regime and would like to see more openness in both diplomacy and borders. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Florida • Cuba • Fidel Castro • foreign policy • Raul Castro • Cuban embargo • Cuban Americans
- Lieberman, Hagel Cross Aisles to Pound Candidates
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | May 21, 08 1:25 PM CDT
  
  Joe Lieberman and Chuck Hagel are fighting a duel of aisle-crossing foreign policy critiques, as the former Dem candidate takes aim at Obama and the GOP heavyweight scolds McCain. “How did the Democratic Party get here?” Joe asks in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, accusing Barack of kow-towing to extremists who have taken the party “further to the left” than at any point in two decades. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • foreign policy • Chuck Hagel • Joe Lieberman • appeasement • FDR
- Surprise! Foreign Policy, Round 1, Goes to Obama
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | May 19, 08 8:19 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama 1, Republicans 0—and on foreign policy, no less. Michael Tomasky marvels in the Guardian at Obama's recent clash with President Bush, who blasted Obama for proposing talks with Iran "without preconditions." Aren't Democrats supposed to be easy targets on foreign policy? Apparently not when they fire back boldly, bring up Bush's Iraq lies, and tell voters, "They're trying to scare you." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • George W. Bush • Iran • foreign policy • appeasement
- Bush Attack Provides Boon to Obama Camp
  
  newser | Politico | May 17, 08 12:26 PM CDT
  
  President Bush’s comments this week about Nazi appeasement have allowed Barack Obama to polish his attacks on the administration and John McCain. Obama seized on the criticism as a two-for-one opportunity, saying there’s “no separation” between Bush and McCain on Mideast policy. The Dem’s tough response could signal his bid to use the war to undermine McCain’s credibility, writes Carrie Budoff Brown in Politico. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • George W. Bush • Iraq war • foreign policy
- Obama Adviser Quits Over Hamas Talk
  
  newser | Times (UK) | May 10, 08 7:10 AM CDT
  
  An informal Mideast policy adviser to the Barack Obama campaign has severed ties after critics made an issue of meetings the adviser had with Hamas, the Times of London reports. The Obama campaign stressed that Robert Malley never had a formal role with them; Malley made it clear that his meetings with Hamas were part of his job with a conflict prevention group and had no connection to Obama. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hamas • Middle East • foreign policy • adviser

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