Thursday, October 22, 2009

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- October 22, 2009



America's Foreign Policy Drift -- Dick Cheney, Center for Security Policy/Real Clear World

(Note: The following remarks were delivered October 21 at the Center for Security Policy and have been slightly edited for length.)

Most anyone who is given responsibility in matters of national security quickly comes to appreciate the commitments and structures put in place by others who came before. You deploy a military force that was planned and funded by your predecessors. You inherit relationships with partners and obligations to allies that were first undertaken years and even generations earlier. With the authority you hold for a little while, you have great freedom of action. And whatever course you follow, the essential thing is always to keep commitments, and to leave no doubts about the credibility of your country's word.

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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS

W.H.: Cheney failed on Afghanistan -- Carol E. Lee, Politico

America, Central Europe & A Partnership for the 21st Century -- Vice President Joe Biden

Remarks At the U.S. Institute for Peace -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Crisis in AfPak -- Ahmed Rashid, National Interest

More Troops are a Bad Bet (in Afghanistan) - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

Patience in Afghanistan is a virtue -- Matthew Duss, The Guardian

Iran Keeps Obama Waiting on Nuclear Deal -- Tony Karon, Time

The Iran Talks We Should End -- John Bellinger, Washington Post

The Israeli Left Implodes -- Gershom Gorenberg, The American Prospect

Robert Mugabe vs. Zimbabwe -- New York Times

The Administration's Sudan Strategy -- J. Stephen Morrison & Jennifer Cooke, CSIS/Real Clear World

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