Foreign Policy

Who is minding Hillary's Store ?

jan z. volens — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:41:33 GMT

Hillary's Store sells "bizarre policies". The owner was originally a small-town business lawyer, married to the legendary "Casanova from Hope" who rode on AIPAC to the Oval Office. The articles that you can see in "Hillary's Store" - a whip for Pakistani politicians who do not want to furnish the current address of one Obama. Then a paddle for African headsgovernment who are slow in sending trainees to Africom. For Latin America - Hillary has two new articles - tropical resort vacations for Southcom "trainers" and "monitors" on the seven new military bases in South America - Colombia (what's left of it after the U.S. amputated Panama province in 1903). For Central America Hillary has the "Magic Realism Agenda" (named by U.S. Embassador Anselem - in allusion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez' genre). Hillary's salesmen of "Magic Realism Agenda" started with the first chapter titled "The Creative Chaos Negotiations-Merry-go-around" - for display in Honduras. Virtually all the salesmen have a background in Isreal-lobby-hobby - as if not enough is written about Mossad "businesses" in Honduras. Hillary's salesmen's chant is: "We are goofy, and oh gosh - another bad agreement!" --- The White house signaled "elections without Zelaya possible", Hillary's salesmen say "No election without Zelaya unless Honduran Congress says otherwise". U.S. Congress says : "Try once more, anyway!" The Latin American nations and the non-NATO world says: "No valid elections withou Zelaya". The bottomline: The U.S. wants to keep Honduras. Like eating a toxic toad - the U.S. will choke on it.

Andrew Bacevich in the International Herald Tribune

davidhillstrom — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:55:07 GMT

Andrew Bacevich has provided an interesting op-ed to today's iht. As he explains US foreign policy for decades has been based upon the military projection of power across the world. He goes on to consider whether President Obama intends to fundamentally alter that policy or simple, in the liberal tradition, to revise the policy cosmetically and save it intact. This is a very astute observation.

My suspicion is that the President will not abandon the long standing policy. However, what we should all be asking ourselves is, 'What foreign policy best serves both the US and the cause of world peace?' Personally I favor a full retreat from the policy of exercising world influence through the projection of military power.

David Hillstrom, author of 'The Bridge'

Honduras in U.S. Foreign Policy

jan z. volens — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:00:09 GMT

The attidute of U.S. "foreign policy deciders" re: Honduras ? On Sept. 26, Brazil's O ESTADO DE SAO PAULO -a rightwing, pro-business daily, has a frontpage report titled: "Honduras leva bate boca entre Brasil e EUA" (Honduras causes quarrel between Brazil and the USA). The Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim asked U.S. United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice to present a resolution to the U.N. Security Council: "The United Nations Security Council calls upon the de facto government of Honduras to cease harassing the Brazilian Embassy". --But Susan Rice apparently attempted to derail this request - by acting out her well-publizised manners (read her biography !) But the Brazilian Foreing Minister responded very firmly and Susan Rice had no alternative but to recite the Brazilian request in the Security Council.

The Nanking massacre?

anotion — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:26:25 GMT

The article mentions the lack of concern by Chinese citizens for Tiananmen Square and says they're more focused on the Japanese massacres in Nanking in 1936-37. I think they quoted like 300k dead. I guess this is a Western view, but aren't the millions massacred in the Cultural Revolution a little more significant than the Nanking massacre?