SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just back from a quick tour of blogs I frequent - and some I will soon frequent - to see what they are saying - or have said recently - concerning the President-elect's national security and foreign policy nominations. Not all have commented – here’s what’s what from those that have: David Ignatius at PostPartisan - This is Obama’s team; he’s clearly in charge. You could see that he wasn’t...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | yesterday
By David Ignatius Washington Post Writers Group Updated: 11/04/08 6:36 AM Courtesy Of The BuffaloNews WASHINGTON — As U. S. and European officials ponder what to do about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, they are coming to a perhaps surprising conclusion: The simplest way to stabilize the country may be to negotiate a truce with the Taliban fundamentalists who were driven from...
Foreign Policy Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Writing at the WaPo 's PostPartisan, columnist David Ignatius says it all : I’ve watched other “dream team” cabinets fall into disarray because of the conflict between strong personalities, and this problem has been most acute when there’s a weak national security adviser. That happened during the Reagan administration, when George Shultz was at State, Casper Weinberger was at Defense...
The Viewspaper (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
One of the most well presented and outstanding screenplays I have seen in recent times; Body of Lies (2008) happened to simply leave me marveling at the edge of my seat. The movie is an adaptation of the novel by the same name written by David Ignatius, released in 2007...
BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Nicole Belle points us to a transcript of this week's Chris Matthews Show, where he, Ceci Connelly, Katty Kay, Mark Whitaker, and David Ignatius discuss the impact of the 'Angry Left' relative to the Republican Party. MATTHEWS: If we try to put up the trade walls, are we going to have a fight on labor issues like this card check thing, about being able to organize individual decision...
TrueNorth (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
David Ignatius - Bush's Iran Policy Has Failed - washingtonpost.comPresident-elect Barack Obama wants to open a serious dialogue with Tehran. That's a worthy aspiration, but there's little reason now to believe that it will succeed.
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... on the Future of American Foreign Policy with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft and David Ignatius. This book was high up in Michiko Kakutani's Top Ten for 2008 and the American Strategy Program of the New America Foundation helped produce this book for the New America Foundation/Basic Books imprint series. Another Kakutani pick was my colleague Steve Coll's The Bin Ladens: An...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
By David Ignatius WashPost WASHINGTON -- Absent some last-minute fireworks, President Bush will leave office with a kind of double-failure on Iran: Administration hard-liners haven't checked Tehran's drive to acquire nuclear weapons technology, and moderates haven't engaged Iran in negotiation and dialogue. The strategic balance between the two countries is the opposite of what Bush had...
The Progressive Puppy (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... some, one source for your thesis that Joe Biden is Missing in Action. The Washington Post's David Ignatius wrote (with no substantiation either): "Where is he these days?" Do they have him in a box? He can't be happy at the idea of considering Clinton as foreign policy tsarina — wasn't Biden's foreign policy savvy the reason he was picked?" The very same article then goes on to report...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... Dyson and Jane Mayer ." info from LAT Top of the Ticket . contact Bob Schieffer Chris Matthews : David Ignatius Washington Post Columnist; Ceci Connolly Washington Post; Katty Kay BBC Washington Correspondent; Mark Whitaker NBC News Washington Bureau Chief. Topics : Will the right and left give Obama a honeymoon? How will Islamic extremists view Obama's presidency? contact Chris CNN's...
Drunk at idrunk.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... & prospects for Iran actually taking those negotiations seriously, are quite hopeful. Yet David Ignatius in today’s WDrunk Newso leads a bellicose VSP charge to give Obama a very short timeline to make any diplomatic initiatives work, echoing a tack of more rightwing & neocon thinktanks. He begins by lamenting a fact that a Bush administration’s hawks Drunk Newspear to have failed...
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... about my enthusiasm for the writing and thinking of Zbigniew Brzezinski , Brent Scowcroft , and David Ignatius . I recognize that these are not unknown voices -- and there are some whose enthusiasm for their views is something that they don't have too much problem controlling. I am very into the work of all three, however. But given the dominance of the neoconservative establishment...
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
David Ignatius : The Bush administration once planned to announce the opening of an interests section in Tehran this month. That won't happen now, and the story illustrates the broken connection that is the U.S.-Iranian relationship. An announcement set for September was delayed because of the Russian invasion of Georgia. But the proposal was back on track until a few weeks ago, when...
Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... and prospects for Iran actually taking those negotiations seriously, are quite hopeful. Yet David Ignatius in today's WaPo leads the bellicose VSP charge to give Obama a very short timeline to make any di plomatic initiatives work, echoing the tack of more rightwing and neocon thinktanks. He begins by lamenting the fact that the Bush administration's hawks appear to have failed in...
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
David Ignatius : The Bush administration once planned to announce the opening of an interests section in Tehran this month. That won't happen now, and the story illustrates the broken connection that is the U.S.-Iranian relationship. An announcement set for September was delayed because of the Russian invasion of Georgia. But the proposal was back on track until a few weeks ago, when...
