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POPSObama Promises Bush III On Iran by John Bolton This produced no change in Iran's strategic objective of acquiring deliverable nuclear weapons. The only real consequence is that Iran is five years closer to achieving that objective. It now has indigenous mastery over the entire nuclear fuel cycle. While Mr. Obama has uttered only generalities on North Korea, his Iran policy will be worse than Mr. Bush's. He acts as though the years of failed efforts to dissuade Iran from going nuclear simply didn't happen. That is blindness, not continuity. Neither North Korea nor Iran is prepared to voluntarily give up nuclear or ballistic missile programs. Mr. Bush's flaw was believing that negotiation and mutual concession could accomplish the U.S. objective -- the end of proliferation threats from Pyongyang and Tehran -- when the objectives of our adversaries were precisely the opposite.
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POPSSome in Arab World wary of Clinton Our national security issues it seems to me US gov. got noses stuck in everybody's business. Take control over things you can control and not everything that happens around the globe.
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POPSRepublicans for Hillary! Neocons, right-wing scribes, and impeachment managers are in rare agreement with Obama —Clinton is a great choice for Secretary of State.
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POPSActor Ben Affleck in DR Congo Touring the devastation of human crisis levels in DR Congo, actor Ben Affleck commenting on the Darfur crisis (with huge Hollywood concern) and the rather lackluster interest in similar or even worse problem in DR Congo
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POPSIs Hillary right for Secretary of State job? While Obama is already gaining a reputation for extending a hand to his former foes (Lieberman for example), putting Clinton in charge of such a large department could cause more damage than good. Obama supporters around the globe are waiting for him to put his stamp of change on American foreign policy. Would that be hindered by putting a public figure with existing ties in this prominent position?
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POPSHopes for the Future I hope that new government programs and spiderwebs of red tape do not pop up to interfere with American productivity, and that we can quickly get our financial footing again. We have to understand that an economic correction needs to take place and the only way out of the coming recession is to go through it. Efforts to avoid it can only prolong it. I hope we can somehow find our way back to sound money and reject corporate cronyism. We cannot address our budget problems at home without changing our disastrous foreign policy abroad. I am hopeful that the new administration can take on the mantle of peace and diplomacy in foreign policy that many Americans feel they were promised. Many other nations also have this hope, which exudes from their congratulatory sentiments offered after the election. They hope that national sovereignty will be respected. They hope that through diplomacy violence and war can be averted. I hope so too.
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POPSObama's First Big Foreign Crisis - Denials Already
The Polish Prime Minister says he said: Yes. Obama's advisors say: He made no comittment. Ah! -- Foreign diplomacy has begun. This specific issues -- an issue that could lead to a nuclear exchange in Europe (!) -- started one day after Obama's great victory. While all over the world many people were dancing in the streets and in rural villages, leaders sending messages of congratulations, etc. --- while this was going on -- The Russians announced they were sending nuclear missiles to their border with Poland. Why? -- In respond to the USA building a missile base in Poland (on the Russian border) That -- I would say -- is rather a rude awakening the day after your greatest public success. Now, two days later, we have political leaders from two countries (ours and Poland) playing the game of he said, she said, he didn't say that, who said what? I don't want to get all 'fanatical,' about this but I feel a certain 'responsibility,' to tell Europeans your lives are i
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POPSAhmadinejad Informs Obama Crew of Iran's Nuke Weapon and Shariah Law Domination Intent Who could not comprehend that the "fundamental" change Ahmadinejad advises Obama to work toward or implement is Shariah law...and who could not read between the lines to know that the "great civilization-building and justice-seeking nation" Mahmoud is referring to is a nuclear arsenal building terror with aims to impose Shariah law whenever, wherever ,and to whatever extent it feels it can be victorious toward.Terror is merely a means to that end
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POPSAn Indian Hymn to Obama America needs more money. Much of the infrastructure is second rate or crumbling. The education system calls for renovation. Almost half the population has no health cover. A completely new social security system needs to be put together . The disparities have reached unacceptable level...The US economy, in other words, has hit a wall. A deadend has come. A complete change of course is necessary. The question is to provide the country a more sustainable future. Obama's challenge is on the one hand to shepherd his countrymen through the present downturn. At the same time, he needs to explain to them that physical resources are finite. He must underscore that America needs to get to save again both at the national and family level. He is striding a political minefield. He will have to sound convincing when he says he does not hold a magic wand to wave the situation away.
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POPSRussia is buying off our closest neighbors The U.S. move to place missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic is being viewed as antagonistic by Russia. Their answer is to sell military weaponry to U.S. neighbors. Latin America and South American countries are being used as pawns in a new form of arms-race. Venezuela and Bolivia, have expelled their U.S. ambassadors. The geo-political map is changing and the U.S. is losing ground. This is yet another foreign relations failure that can only be blamed on the Bush administration. The next administration needs to do some old-fashioned diplomatic manuvering to prevent another Cuban missile crisis. I hope they are up for it.
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POPSMC Yogi: Obama '08 - Vote for Hope Funky, retro, East-Coast hip-hop from a Northern California yoga teacher & musician. Definitely going to be checking his website to see if he's playing anywhere near us soon!
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POPSRAND Lobbies Pentagon: Start War To Save U.S. Economy If this were true I would say our gov't is full of more Fracking idiots then I originally thought. I would not put past any think tank though - hell Cheney's old company made a shit load by doing that in 2001. Hopefully the next administration is more focused on world peace and diplomacy rather than blowing things up.
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POPSNicholas Burns: We Should Talk to Our Enemies Nicholas Burns started his career as a foreign service officer in 1983. He served in Cairo and Jerusalem, before working in the State Department’s Department of Soviet Affairs. Then in 1990 he shifted onto the National Security Council staff. In 1995 he became Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, and in 1997 he was appointed Ambassador to Greece. In 2001, the George W. Bush administration made him the United States’ Permanent Representative to NATO, and then in 2005 they made him Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs — the number three job in the State Department. This career diplomatic, widely respected and widely experienced, trusted with key missions by the Bush administration, has an article in Newsweek about how yes we should engage in direct, high-level talks with “bad guy” regimes:
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