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Gates Warns Japan Not to Back Out of Troop Deal

Relationship with Asian ally increasingly strained

Oct 22, 09 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - All is not well between the US and Japan. Yesterday Robert Gates warned the country of serious consequences if it backs out of a troop movement deal the two countries spent 10 years negotiating. Japan’s new ruling party wants to reopen those negotiations, as it moves to redefine its... More »

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Afghanistan • China • Japan • Robert Gates • Japanese Defense Force • Democratic Party of Japan • foreign policy

OPINION

Obama Coming Up Short
on Human Rights

President's actions don't match the promises that wowed Berliners

Oct 20, 09 1:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's decision to skip the celebrations of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights the gap between his rhetoric on the campaign trail and the realities of his presidency, writes Bret Stephens. Obama hailed the "dream of freedom" in his big speech in Berlin last... More »

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China • Iran • human rights • Berlin • Sudan • foreign policy • Burma • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - Though Obama advocated a confrontational approach to Sudan on the campaign trail, his administration will announce a somewhat soft policy toward the country on Monday. Ending months of internal wrangling, the policy is designed use to "pressure and incentives" to bend the government to address US concerns over the... More »

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Barack Obama • Darfur • Sudan • foreign policy • Omar al Bashir • Scott Gration • Obama administration • President Obama

charles krauthammer


 Obama's 
 Foreign Policy 
 Amateurish 
 and Naive 

Krauthammer finds the Nobel not premature, but ridiculous

Oct 16, 09 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's Nobel prompted Charles Krauthammer to review the administration's foreign policy moves to date, and from Iran to Russia to China, he finds nothing but failure. "It is amateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity," he complains. "In short, the very stuff of Nobels." Obama gets... More »

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Iran • Russia • foreign policy • Nobel Peace Prize • President Obama

 Clinton Praises Russia on Iran 

Hails cooperation, but no deal on potential new sanctions

Oct 13, 09 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US isn’t seeking further nuclear sanctions against Iran, at least not for now, Hillary Clinton said today, after meeting with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. The pair professed unity on the Iranian issue, with Clinton praising Russia for its “extremely cooperative” work. Clinton added that... More »

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Iran • Russia • Hillary Clinton • diplomacy • foreign policy

WATCH IT

Cheney Group Raises Cash
to Save US From Obama

Liz project, Keep America Safe, will target 'radical' foreign policy

Oct 13, 09 9:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Liz Cheney’s new nonprofit launched its first online video today, kicking off fundraising for its anti-Obama campaign. Keep America Safe is dedicated to opposing what Cheney describes as Obama’s “radical” foreign policy. “Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, you want the nation to be... More »

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national security • Barack Obama • nonprofit • foreign policy • attack ad • Liz Cheney

PROFILE

 Joe Biden 
 Is Obama's 
 Best Gadfly, 
 'Truth-Teller' 


Hardly a joke, veep doesn't mind stirring the pot

Oct 11, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's suave, controlled campaign may have winced when gaffe-prone Joe Biden came aboard, but the vice president has proven himself to be a necessary straight-shooter time and again in the administration's tumultuous first nine months. From Afghanistan to health care, Biden has become Obama's most reliable "truth teller,... More »

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Joe Biden • vice president • foreign policy • gaffe • presidential adviser • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Obama Cabinet

 Obama Tells Lama to Stay Away 

Move seen as an effort to avoid annoying the Chinese

Oct 5, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a move seemingly designed to appease China, US officials have asked the Dalai Lama not to meet with President Obama when he visits Washington this week. Typically, the Lama “drops in” on the White House whenever he’s in the capital, but Obama doesn’t want to meet... More »

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China • Barack Obama • diplomacy • Hu Jintao • Tibet • Dalai Lama • foreign policy

OPINION

 This Looks 
 Like a Job for 
 the Neocons 

Time for America to start flexing its muscles instead of making deals

Sep 29, 09 7:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Neoconservatives are making a comeback and it's about time, writes Bret Stephens. They're back "because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il, and Vladimir Putin never went away," Stephens writes in the Wall Street Journal, and because the world wants America to use its strength to stop Iran and North... More »

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Vladimir Putin • neocon • foreign policy • Kim Jong Il • neoconservatives

OPINION

Bolton: Obama's UN Address Naive, 'Post-American'

Ex-UN rep not impressed by president's focus on 'interests that unite us'

Sep 24, 09 3:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's address to the United Nations yesterday was long on uniting nations and short on looking out for American interests, complains Bush administration UN representative John Bolton. The "Wilsonian" address was "a post-American speech by our first post-American president," and was "very revealing of Obama’... More »

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United Nations • John Bolton • foreign policy • UN General Assembly • President Obama

McChrystal Denies Rift,
Says He's Not Quitting

General will not resign, even if his requests are not honored

Sep 23, 09 4:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - General McChrystal says his bleak assessment of the US effort in Afghanistan has not created any ill will between him and the Obama administration, and he welcomed the national debate over the mission. In an interview with the New York Times, McChrystal also denied rumors that he will resign he... More »

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Afghanistan • foreign policy • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Army general • Stanley McChrystal

POLL ANALYSIS

Obama Drops on Foreign Policy, With Independents

But president did slow defections with speech on health reform

Sep 22, 09 6:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s speech on health reform did stem movement away from him on the issue, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows, but he’s losing steam among independent voters—a key constituency for him and fellow Democrats in recent elections—and facing more doubt about his handling of... More »

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foreign policy • health care reform • Afghanistan war • opinion polls • President Obama

ANALYSIS

 Clinton Torn 
 Between 
 Leading and 
 Blending In 

Blunt talk and campaign-style events ruffle some diplomatic feathers

Sep 19, 09 6:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has impressed many in her 8 months as secretary of state but her own leadership aspirations are sometimes all too obvious, Glenn Kessler writes at the Washington Post. Clinton has forged close working relationships with other Cabinet members and made her desire to cooperate clear, Kessler writes, but... More »

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Hillary Clinton • diplomacy • State Department • secretary of State • foreign policy • Obama administration

 Pawlenty Rips Obama's 
 Pre-9/11-Style 'Appeasement' 

Blasts talks with Iran, N. Korea, says similar moves didn't stop Nazis, Soviets, terrorists

Sep 18, 09 10:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a possible Republican presidential contender in 2012, tonight compared President Obama’s diplomatic moves on Iran, North Korea and the missile shield to pre-World War II and pre-9/11 “appeasement,” Politico reports. “The lessons of history are clear,” he told Christian conservatives. “... More »

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Iran • Mitt Romney • North Korea • missile shield • Nazi • Minnesota • Tim Pawlenty • foreign policy • appeasement • 9/11 attacks • Election 2012 • President Obama • Values Voters Summit

(Newser) - President Obama’s decision to scrap plans for a missile defense shield is a political bombshell, writes Robin Oakley for CNN. America’s allies in Poland and the Czech Republic are left holding the bag after expending significant political capital on the unpopular system. Abandoning it might make their lives... More »

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Russia • Barack Obama • diplomacy • Eastern Europe • Poland • Czech Republic • missile defense system • Western Europe • foreign policy • Obama administration • President Obama

ANALYSIS

 August Is a Snooze— 
 Unless These Crises Hit 

Iran, Afghanistan won't spend summer snoozing

Aug 11, 09 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - August is a snooze—except when it isn't, writes Anne Applebaum for the Washington Post, who points out that World War I and Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in the eighth month. For the benefit of "the interns who are manning the shop while everyone is out of... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Iran • Russia • Georgia • foreign policy • summer • Iranian protests • Afghanistan election

 Obama Approval Down to 50% 

Only 38% approve of his handling of health care, a Quinnipiac poll shows

Aug 6, 09 2:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s approval rating took another dip this week, as health care reform and the deficit continue to trouble some Americans, Bloomberg reports. Exactly half the registered voters surveyed said they approve of the job Obama is doing, according to a Quinnipiac poll released today. That's down from an... More »

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Barack Obama • US foreign policy • foreign policy • approval ratings • President Obama

(Newser) - Critics who say Barack Obama is forcing Hillary Clinton to keep a low profile, a la a Daily Beast charge that it's time to let her take off the burqa, don't understand how foreign policy gets made in America, Anne Applebaum writes at the Washington Post. Clinton's post at State... More »

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Hillary Clinton • diplomacy • secretary of State • foreign policy • Obama administration

(Newser) - What does the burgeoning beef between rappers Jay-Z and The Game have in common with US foreign policy? Plenty, writes Marc Lynch in Foreign Policy. Like America, Jay-Z is a hegemon: “Nobody, but nobody, in the hip-hop world has his combination of hard power and soft power.” But... More »

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50 Cent • foreign policy • rapper • rap music • rap rivalry • Jay-Z • The Game • neoconservatives • Jay-ZTV • Nas

ANALYSIS

Obama's Honduras Response Defuses Chávez Bluster

Condemnation of Honduran coup parries accusations of US complicity

Jul 1, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama confounded Hugo Chávez’s attempts to implicate Washington in the Honduran coup by calling for President Manuel Zelaya’s reinstatement, Simon Romero writes for the New York Times. When the coup was announced, Chávez immediately suggested that the US was financing Zelaya’s opponents or, as... More »

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Barack Obama • Latin America • US foreign policy • foreign policy • military coup • Honduras • Hugo Chávez • coup d'etat • President Obama • Manuel Zelaya

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