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Washington Voices Impatience with Regime
Amid the continuing stand-off between protestors and the Egyptian government, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama appeared Wednesday to be losing patience with both President Hosni Mubarak and his new vice president, Gen. Omar Suleiman.
Pox Americana
In the name of its War on Terror, Washington had for years backed most of the thuggish governments now under siege or anxious that they may be next in line to hear from their people. When it came to Egypt in particular, there was initially much polite (and hypocritical) discussion in the media about how our “interests” and our “values” were in conflict, about how far the U.S. should back off its support for the Mubarak regime, and about what a “tightrope” the Obama administration was walking.
Egyptian Protesters Dared to Stand on the “Edge of Chaos”
What if, facing a hyper-speed revolution in Egypt, Secretary of State Clinton and her advisors had sat together examining fractal structures, nonlinear dynamical systems, and models of self-organization? Say what?
Using Islamophobia as a Pretext for Withdrawing From Afghanistan
According to a prominent national-security expert, if a clash of cultures is inevitable, U.S. foreign policy must reflect the inherent antagonism.
Revisiting the Neutered Medal of Honor Argument
The shift in Congressional Medal of Honor emphasis may reflect a national ambiguity about our wars.
Nuclear Disarmament Would Make U.S. Undisputed Arms Champ
Is overwhelming superiority in conventional weapons the main reason for the apparent interest of the United States in nuclear disarmament?
Sushi Reverses Course: Consuming American Sushi in Tokyo
The nascent American sushi trend brings into relief aspects of Japan-US relations that are seldom articulated in the context of discourse about food – in particular the continued symbolic dominance of the US in Japanese eyes; and it also is emblematic of how Japan engages aspects of globalisation, in this case fetishising a mundane product that has become something new in its reimported form.
Whither the Party Line on Egypt?
Revolutions of world-historic potential, such as we are presently witnessing in Egypt, only happen once in a generation. There is enough awkwardness among the Washington establishment—bewildered at the sight of an uprising against a client state—that they are completely helpless to do much of anything in the face of the tumult on the Egyptian street. But no one is confronting a more awkward comeuppance, and responding to it more erratically, than the neoconservatives.
Republican Calls to Drain the Pentagon Swamp Provide Window for Democrats to Climb Through
Citing canard that moderates are more inclined to respect Republicans on national security matters, libertarians and Grover Norquist call for defense cuts than Democrats.