It's clear that Obama and his team see partnerships as a pragmatic and effective way to boost and extend America's influence.
BigThink | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
BigThink interviewed President-elect Obama's National Security Adviser, Ret. Gen. James Jones. What principles guide your energy plan? Well, we thin...
Lionel Beehner | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
Obama's familiar-looking team of national security fixer-uppers does not inspire confidence. Nor do his vague answers to detailed questions on specific policies.
New York Times | MICHAEL R. GORDON | Posted 12.02.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON - One of the most difficult challenges President-elect Barack Obama's national security team faces is Mr. Obama's vow to send thousands of ...
David Sirota | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Lots of folks are expressing concern over Barack Obama's appointments, and in my new newspaper column I offer three separate thoughts on the worries: ...
James Warren | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
For all Monday's talk of power, and successfully ending the "war on terror" in Afghanistan, the significance was less the obvious signals of being "muscular" than of an attempt to be flexible and, yes, multilateralist.
Max Bergmann | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
In keeping Gates, Obama is actually indicating that he is very serious about instituting significant reform of the Pentagon.
Tom Andrews | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Obama should declare that seeking regime change in Iran is no longer the policy of the U.S. and initiate diplomatic contacts with the Iranian government immediately without preconditions.
Robert Creamer | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Two of my wife's constituents had been holed up in their hotel room at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. They had been there for over a day avoiding the terrorist gunmen that still stalked its corridors.
Washington Post | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went unarmed into his first meeting with the new commander in chief -- no aides, no Po...
NBC | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
Democratic sources say that former Bush 41 National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft is one of the people whom Barack Obama has been consulting about ...
Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
Al Qaeda's first message since the election demonstrates that they are genuinely concerned about an Obama presidency and views it as a strategic threat to its existence.
Steven L. Spiegel | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
If Obama is far more likely to resolve the current crisis, which is widely accepted polls tell us, then he can provide a critical national security function which McCain cannot.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
As the one arrow left in McCain's quiver -- other than appealing to racists -- national security becomes the likeliest playing field for an October Surprise.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
On foreign policy, Obama appears to have no new ideas. He is partially recycling his past eureka moments, while partially aping some of the Bush administration's recent successes.
Rand Beers | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
Sen. Obama must show that he can hold his own with the Senate veteran and that he is ready to be Commander-in-Chief. This debate matters more than most.
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 09.17.2008 | Home
Where do Obama and McCain stand on these issues? To start, McCain, the nominee of what used to called the "small government party," wants to create two entirely new government organizations.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics
Yes, Obama is a better alternative than McCain, who seems hellbent on restoring a cold war with Russia, but he gives so few specifics that I question what he would do as commander in chief.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics
If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Biden is on the ticket soley to parry McCain's hit point that Obama is a greenhorn on foreign policy and national security. Time will tell whether Biden will be much good in doing that.
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home
WHO: Senior Foreign Policy Advisor Susan Rice and Richard Clarke WHAT: Press Conference Call to discuss comments made by Senator McCain, President B...
Alison Teal | Posted 08.16.2008 | Politics
We drove to Denver yesterday to nose around and check out the convention arrangements. The good news is that the construction at the Pepsi Center appe...
Seth Swirsky | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics
Americans could only consider an Obama, because of the remarkable success of President Bush, through his decisive actions, in ratcheting down the fear Americans felt for many years after 9/11.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
Voters trust McCain on the war on terror; Obama needs to show them every day why they shouldn't.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
I am excited about Obama's project of building a new coalition based on finding rational common ground on controversial issues. The question is this: common ground with who?
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Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Ken Bacon | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics