Tag : Chuck Hagel
Key Questions Everyone Should Be Asking About Syria
President Obama is at a tricky and dangerous point regarding intervention in Syria. (U.S. News) During the Haiti coup of the early 1990s, the lines were unusually clear. On one side were the junta leaders and their supporters. There were the people who backed deposed president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. And then there were those who onlyRead moreObama’s Foreign Policy Poker Face
(U.S. News and World Report) By the end of week two, students taking the course “Navigating the Checkpoints in Life” at Washington and Jefferson College are happily grasping just how the “the rules of the bluff” work. You can see it in their eyes and smiles. They beam with appreciation of this new knowledge. TheyRead moreGet Ready for President Lugar
Since the media’s dream of a brokered Republican presidential convention has turned to fizz, the possibilities of additional arias in the presidential opera are dwindling as the curtain begins to close on the spring season. The Libertarian Party — in a contested presidential convention the media once projected for Republicans — took two ballots toRead more
Architects without Umbrellas
For decades there have been conversations, tough questions, “ah-ha” moments, deep insights and common sense shared in one-on-one exchanges with John Kerry and Chuck Hagel. In all those times interacting with them, watching them, analyzing them, not one umbrella has been spotted. These men are not appeasers or pleasers. They are not those who seekRead more
