Right Turn Archive: foreign policy
Interview with son of imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Yesterday, Joe Biden was in Moscow, praising "reset." At Moscow University he offered only the most minimal support for reform. We are helping Russia join the World Trade Organization (another unilateral and self-defeating gesture). But Biden cautions that "investors and...
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Jennifer Rubin
| March 11, 2011; 11:35 AM ET |
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The shrinking superpower
The Post's Scott Wilson provides this analysis of Obama's handling -- or non-handling -- of the Libyan revolution: President Obama is content to let other nations publicly lead the search for solutions to the Libyan conflict, his advisers say, a...
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Jennifer Rubin
| March 10, 2011; 3:48 PM ET |
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An arms embargo on what, exactly?
At Monday's State Department briefing there was this exchange on whether the U.N.-imposed arms embargo prevents us from providing military aid to the Libyan rebels: MR. CROWLEY: Yes. Well, it's very simple. In the U.N. Security Council resolution passed on...
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| March 10, 2011; 9:52 AM ET |
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Didn't Obama pledge to complete 3 free-trade deals?
The Wall Street Journal reports: "U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Monday appealed to congressional leaders to begin work "without delay" toward ratifying a free-trade deal with South Korea, even as Republican leaders continued to press to link such action...
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| March 8, 2011; 5:03 PM ET |
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Will Libya matter in 2012?
A reader e-mailed me over the weekend asking whether "the situation in Libya may affect the 2012 presidential campaigns." He mused: "Depending on how bad it gets in Libya, I envision a whole slew of political ads showing Obama shaking...
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| March 7, 2011; 11:45 AM ET |
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Tunisia is not Libya, which is not Bahrain, which is not Morocco
We are certainly witnessing a regional transformation in the Middle East in which autocratic regimes are being challenged and in some cases toppled by secular uprisings. But, as I have noted before, the differences between countries is critical -- and...
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Jennifer Rubin
| March 4, 2011; 2:05 PM ET |
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