“One of the most impressive things about the Obama administration's approach is the degree to which the president is giving Congress ownership of this bill,” says Elizabeth Carpenter, a healthcare expert at the New America Foundation. ...
But the US may want action, not words “Short of the two men coming out of the White House bearing physical scars on their faces, the meeting will be adjudged a success,” says Daniel Levy, a former adviser to Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime ...
We will need to remind ourselves often in the next few years that the
situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan is not the Obama administration's
fault. It inherited from George W. Bush a crisis so deep and so
horribly complex that dealing with it would tax the powers of St Peter,
let alone a US government with many other things on its mind and on its
grossly overstrained budget. Improving the situation is the best that
we can hope for. Finding a "solution" to the Afghan war… more
"I haven't seen this big of a mess in the bilateral relationship in at least 25 years, said Jorge Castañeda, Mexico's foreign minister under the previous administration of Vicente Fox. As a former governor of Texas, George W. Bush was more familiar ...
Dubai
must feel a little like Mark Twain, these days. Upon reading his own obituary
in the newspaper, Twain wrote: "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
Dubai
has had its share of obituaries as it suffers from a property bust and
contagion from the global credit crisis. Headlines from Cairo
to London to New York, laced with schadenfreude, proclaim
its demise. Newsweek said simply: "Goodbye, Dubai."
"To devote this much time to long-term fiscal discipline in the middle of everything else that is on is plate is a very encouraging sign," said Maya MacGuineas, head of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "He has planted a clear flag in the ...
Maya MacGuineas, who heads the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, says Monday’s White House summit needs to set a credible agenda to begin a bipartisan effort to tackle America’s debt. Between October last year and October 2010, it is expected ...
It is certain that as one of its first actions, President
Barack Obama's administration will approve a military "surge" in Afghanistan come
the spring. The question that needs to be decided is: a surge for what? On the
answer will depend in large part the success or failure of the administration
in the "war on terror" as a whole.
“It is really important for Obama that the bill has credibility with the markets,” says Maya MacGuineas ...
Steve Clemons, foreign policy expert and renowned blogger, speaks with Edward Luce, Washington, DC Bureau Chief, at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota. LINK to video
