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A world without a hegemon
Interesting times.
Tag: Pax Americana
‘Chickensh*t-gate’: Obama administration proves it’s got nothing
Impotence.
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In a post-American world, no one cares about ‘Palestine’
Death rattle.
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Team Obama’s obsession: A “peace process” that’s past its shelf life
Stick a fork in it. And get a clue while you’re at it, Team Obama.
It’s time to just say it. The obsession of Barack Obama and John Kerry with forcing along a discredited and unproductive “peace process” involving the Palestinian Arabs and Israel is weird – even creepy.
Notice I didn’t say “peace process between the Palestinian Arabs and Israel.” There’s nothing “between” about it. At this point, the Obama-Kerry show seems to involve the Palestinian Arabs and Israel only tangentially. All the action is in Washington, D.C., and it’s all one-sided.
When we left our drama last week, Mahmoud Abbas had just delivered “three ‘no’s’” to the White House on this freighted topic: no recognition of Israel as a Jewish state; no relinquishment of a so-called “right of return”; and no commitment to honoring a pact with Israel as an “end of conflict” between the two.
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Back to the future: The post-Pax foreign policy debate
Interesting times.
It is no accident that the arc of the 20th century has in some ways circled back to where it started, one hundred years on from the prelude to the “Great War” of 1914-18. Whether humans imagine themselves to be acting on ideology or “realism,” we continue to do pretty much the same things. Between politics, geography, and time, we humans are very predictable.
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