Dive into the archives.
- The importance of “them”
‘Madness’ of anti-US attitude is full of risk, says Blair
Tony Blair gave warning yesterday that the “madness”Â? of anti-Americanism in Europe was increasing the risk that the United States could walk away from world affairs.
Addressing the Australian Parliament, Blair said that he did not always agree with the Americans and that sometimes they could be [...]
- The Saudi Problem
In my last post, I proposed that the US should use Turkey as a middleman to spread its tolerant and modern version of Islam. With countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan fostering and spreading radicalism through out their respective regions and the world, and Saudi Arabia having almost infinite resources to do so, radicalism can’t [...]
- Germany’s Past Military Deployments
Back in December, I posted a world map of the Federal Republic of Germany’s current worldwide deployments. A few days ago, I noticed that Germany was considering deploying 500 troops to the Congo. With my interest piqued and already knowing where the Bundeswehr is at the moment, I decided to visit the German Ministry of [...]
- The Magical Merkel Tour Part II
[Part I]
My first post in the series summarized German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent visits to foreign countries. Even before taking office, the news and blogosphere were awash with predictions of dramatic changes in German foreign policy. Though they have been disappointed, others who predicted more of a rebalancing instead of a new direction have found [...]
- Obliged to Do Something
The rhetoric from Germany regarding Iran gets stronger by the day. The latest from Merkel is:
Merkel likens Iran threat to Nazi era
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel likened Iran’s nuclear plans on Saturday to the threat posed by the Nazis in their early days, as top U.S. officials urged a tough line to [...]
- The Magical Merkel Tour
Since being sworn in November 22nd of last year, Bundeskanzerlin Angela Merkel has been busy visting foreign heads of state. Only two days after being sworn in she headed to Paris and then to Brussels to meet with NATO. In Paris she put more distance between herself and Chirac and in Brussels moved closer to [...]
- Imperial Grunts in India
Eddie from Live From the FDNF has the latest information on US military cooperation with India:
News that Robert D. Kaplan fans might appreciate. It fits in line with the promising “light footprint” outline that Kaplan praised and gamely played against “big army” examples in his recent “Imperial Grunts”. Low-level ops like this should [...]
- Friendly advice from the north, eh
This weekend’s WaPo featured a scathing American perspective of the upcoming Canadian election. The author accuses Canadian politicians of making US policy a central theme in the federal election and criticizing it “for taxing Canadian lumber imports, for failing to fight global warming, for lax gun-control laws, for dealing inappropriately with the war on terrorism.” [...]
- The Bundeswehr’s Worldwide Missions
Although numerically small, the German military, or Bundeswehr participates in considerably more operations than most people are aware of. This is not to say that they could not or should not participate in more, but rather to illustrate the extent of their current involvement in humanitarian affairs and anti-terrorism operations. I’ve discussed where they have [...]
- Divide et impera
UPDATE: Question to readers—where does Korea belong in the three camps listed in the second blockquote?
The US is not taking part in the upcoming East Asia summit, but we do, as this article says, have a dog in this fight.
There is a fight under way at the summit, albeit a polite and diplomatic tussle. [...]
