CBS, meanwhile, reported: “The Obama administration is giving different explanations of its July 2011 deadline for the start of an Afghanistan troop withdrawal, assuring foreign officials that it applies only to the 30,000 to 35,000 additional U.S. troops that President Barack Obama is sending next year (2010), but suggesting to Congress that it covers...
Diplomacy
Bret Stephens: Does Obama Believe in Human Rights – WSJ.com
It . . . takes a remarkable degree of cynicism—or perhaps cowardice—to treat human rights as something that “interferes” with America’s purposes in the world, rather than as the very thing that ought to define them. Yet that is exactly the record of Mr. Obama’s time thus far in office. In Massachusetts not long...
CNSNews.com – American Legion Critical of Obama for Apologizing to Muslim World for U.S. Actions in Aftermath of 9/11
CNSNews.com – American Legion Critical of Obama for Apologizing to Muslim World for U.S. Actions in Aftermath of 9/11. Let at-all-costs academic pacifists loose on the world and you get a elected official (doesn’t quite sound right to say “president”) with his tail between his legs. That’s the farthest things from American ideals.
World Agenda: Nicolas Sarkozy puts Barack Obama in the doghouse – Times Online
The American President’s call “to free the world of the menace of a nuclear nightmare” was hot air, Mr Sarkozy’s diplomatic staff told him in a report. “It was rhetoric – not a speech on American security policy but an export model aimed at improving the image of the United States,” they said. Most...
Barack Obama ‘too tired’ to give proper welcome to Brit PM
The Telegraph is reporting on the snub the British feel at being unwarmly welcomed at the White House… Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest. British officials, meanwhile, admit...
