The Tibetan Agenda
President Obama’s long-awaited meeting with the Dalai Lama takes place this week. And one can expect that the Washington media and punditocracy will be focused on the political calculus by Beijing and the Obama administration, as they wonder how this session factors into the increasingly fractious U.S./China relationship. But there is something else, arguably more [...]
Chatting up the taliban
In his State of the Union address, President Obama claimed that the U.S. had basically ignored the situation in Afghanistan during the 1990s. But as Michael Rubin shows in a disturbing article in Commentary, Obama’s account, as is so often the case when the president dabbles in history, is not correct. Rather, [...]
The Washington Post hates Joe Lieberman
In a ridiculously partisan bit of writing, even by Washington Post standards, Lois Romano and Alec MacGillis introduce a piece about Sen. Joe Lieberman this way:
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) has once again inserted himself into the middle of an inflamed partisan debate, raising questions about his motives, his ego and his fickle allegiance [...]
