Tag Archives: foreign relations

Polish Foreign Minister: We Gave America A Blowjob And Got Nothing In Return

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Sec. John Kerry Celebrates LGBT Pride, Tells Embattled Foreign Gays That “You Have A Partner In The United States”

Via press release from the White House. The Department of State joins the world in celebrating LGBT Pride Month and reaffirms its commitment to the promotion and protection of the human rights of LGBT persons around the globe. In the United States, we have made marked progress in tearing down the unjust and unfair barriers that have prevented the full …

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Dick Cheney And Liz Cheney Blame President Obama For Civil War In Iraq

From an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal: Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us he is “ending” the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—as though wishing made it so. His rhetoric has now come crashing into reality. Watching the …

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Round Three: Who Won?

Reactions and analysis, please!

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Madeline Albright: Mitt Romney Isn’t Qualified To Run U.S. Foreign Policy

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Obama: Egypt Is Neither Friend Nor Foe

Frenemy?

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Libya Makes Arrests Over US Deaths

Initial reports are light on details: NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston says Libyan officials have informed the U.S. that four people are under arrest in connection with the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other embassy staffers on Tuesday. But U.S. officials have yet to interview the detainees, described as “militants” or to verify …

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Libyans Rally To Denounce Attack

More photos here.

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Romney: I Won’t Criticize Israel

Think Progress writes: Fresh off of telling the United Kingdom that it wasn’t ready for the Olympics during a tour of London, Romney unsubtly jabbed President Obama in Jerusalem this Sunday for criticizing Israeli policy. Romney suggested that any public criticism of Israel in public would be off-limits in a Romney presidency. Hit the link for examples of the last …

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Obama Slams Romney On Foreign Policy

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Grenade Or Aid?

A massive version of the above chart can be found here.

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House Committee Passes Bill Discouraging Financial Aid To Anti-Gay Nations

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee today approved Rep. Barney Frank’s budget amendment that would discourage the granting of foreign aid to nations that engage in the “physical persecution” of their citizens on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identify. Michelle Garcia reports at the Advocate: The text of the amendment reads: “The Committee urges Treasury to advocate that …

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President Obama Supports Iran’s “Peaceful Protesters”

According to this report, some of the protesters in Iran may have been emboldened by Obama’s speech to the Muslim world in Cairo.

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