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Richmond.com
February 6, 2018
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 5, 2018
Elephants in the Room asked a number of its regular contributors to name one good thing and one bad thing about Trump's foreign policy in 2017. .... However, given the recent demonstrations in Iran, perhaps Israel will receive unexpected help from the Iranian people intent on reining in the costly militaryÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
January 25, 2018
Just as the dissidents behind the Iron Curtain knew Ronald Reagan was a true ally and sincere believer in human rights, so in Iran today the Iranian people sense that President Trump is on their side and that President Obama was on the side of the mullahs. The Iranian people are also aware thatÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
January 22, 2018
Voice of America
January 19, 2018
But notwithstanding his tweets and rhetoric, analysts say, Trump's foreign policy has turned out to be mostly conventional. "Despite all the ... In a well-received national security speech last month, he laid out a strategy reminiscent of Ronald Reagan's " peace through strength" policy. He emphasized hisÃÂ ...
The Jewish Voice (blog)
January 17, 2018
Carter's foreign policy team completely misinterpreted the Iranian revolution of 1979. ... Also on Reagan's watch took place the Iran-Contra affair of 1985-86, a plan to arm the Contras fighting the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and to ransom Americans held hostage by Iranian jihadist proxies in BeirutÃÂ ...
גלובס
January 11, 2018
Reagan was ridiculed for that statement by the media and by the foreign policy establishment of the day. ... Constant broadcasting should be aimed at Iran in Farsi, dedicated to informing the Iranian people honestly and truthfully what the world, regional and local situations are, and always demonstratingÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
January 9, 2018
Although the emergence of a popular uprising against the Iranian regime undoubtedly complicates the politics of Trump's decision, the president should ... There is always a middle path to discover in foreign policy--and, in this case, a path that can uphold American values, defend our national security andÃÂ ...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
Trump's policy is not only not isolationist -- as many of his opponents (and a few misguided supporters) contend -- his pursuit of Ronald Reagan's ... For many of those who pursue "Global Zero," the real target is not rogue states like Iran or North Korea, or strategic threats like Russia or China, but theÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Just like Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon frequently did in the 1980's, he shaped the sections of his speech that deal with foreign policy around ... In his State of the Nation address, Trump sought to overdramatise his stance on Korea, Iran, and ISIL, and praised himself for speaking against Iran's "corruptÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 31, 1999
He's been hitting the road, constructively engaging with allies on thorny diplomatic problems like North Korea and Iran ... limelight -- Reagan's team actually asked if he planned to run for president -- and took the job with promises that we would be the dominant force in foreign policy, a self-anointed "vicar.
The Chicago Cusader
March 21, 2017
... Jr. National Holiday Law, which was authored and sponsored by his colleague, former U.S. Representative Katie Hall representing Indiana's First Congressional district; and signed into federal law by U.S.
The Australian Financial Review
March 21, 2017
billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller, former head of Chase Manhattan and patriarch of one of the most famous and influential American families, died on Monday (Tuesday AEDT), a family spokesman said.
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 20, 2017
Stone, a brash, super-confident dynamo at 64 and a Reagan Revolution veteran, is in many ways the anti-Schlafly: a Pro-Choice, pro-gay, Feminist Republican harshly critical of GOP orthodoxy on social issues.
The Hill (blog)
March 19, 2017
21, Kelly Magsamen, who served at the State Department, National Security Council Staff and Department of Defense, published a piece for Foreign Policy titled, "Trump's NSC, State Department, and Pentagon Need to Play Together. ... with what Israeli ...
Consortium News
March 19, 2017
Topeka Capital Journal
March 18, 2017
Here's what you'll find if you glance at the "America First Foreign Policy" page on the White House's website: "The Trump Administration is committed to a foreign policy focused on American interests and American national security. ... more than 100 ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 17, 2017
Boston Review
March 15, 2017
Voters wanted a president with a muscular foreign policy, but they did not want nuclear war. That shared desire allowed the Nuclear Freeze Movement, a grassroots protest against Reagan's defense policies, to organize a broad, nonpartisan coalition ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 15, 2017
The Ronald Reagan administration is our stark example that a disruptive U.S. foreign policy, breaking with the long-standing policies of its immediate predecessors, is not, in and of itself, a bad thing for America or the world.
LSU Now
March 14, 2017
Following the Iran-Contra Affair in 1986, nearly one in three Americans thought Reagan should consider resigning before his term ended.
The American Conservative
March 14, 2017
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 14, 2017
Tillerson's predecessor devoted his time and attention to a few high-profile negotiations (such as the failed Israeli-Palestinian peace gambit and the too-soon-to-tell Iranian nuclear deal) at the expense of both managing the department and tending to ...
The Hill (blog)
March 12, 2017
Harassment of U.S. Naval forces by Iranian forces in international waters of the Persian gulf reveals that Iran's leadership is prepared to test the new administration: on its publicly stated commitment to confront Iran when it fails to meet its ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 9, 2017
... (whose name was always below the fold while Kissinger grabbed the headlines) and President Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Defense, one who served a president with an abysmal foreign-policy record culminating in the failed Iran hostage rescue mission ...
Times of Malta
March 2, 2017
Daily Republic
March 2, 2017
New York Times
February 28, 2017
"States like these, and their terrorist allies," he said, referring to Iran, Iraq and North Korea, "constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.
Reason (blog)
February 28, 2017
UC Berkeley (blog)
February 28, 2017
Covertly he denied knowledge of the Iran/Contra scheme that helped privatize our foreign policy. Domestically Reagan began to blur the lines between fantasy and fact as repeatedly used an apocryphal story about a "welfare queen" in Chicago to slash ...
The Hill (blog)
February 28, 2017
The Trump administration is tasked with a number of issues on the foreign policy front, perhaps none more nuanced and challenging than formulating a policy toward Iran. The regime in Tehran continues to present policy dilemmas with ... Such ...
Allentown Morning Call
February 27, 2017
Bush inherited a large federal budget deficit, as well as the fallout from the Iran-Contra scandal, the biggest foreign policy blunder of the Reagan administration. In his first address to a Democratic-controlled Congress, Bush struck an optimistic ...
Esquire.com
February 27, 2017
Yet no one denies that the meeting Silberman was at took place, and although Silberman has said the Iranian's offer was immediately rejected, none of the three Reagan operatives ever told the Carter administration what had happened. ... In his book ...
Shadowproof (blog)
February 24, 2017
Muslim or Arab scholars, who express anti-imperialist sentiments in order to challenge U.S. foreign policy, have their loyalty to America openly called into question.
Muncie Star Press
February 24, 2017
Trotting out themes last heard in earnest in the Reagan and Bush eras (the first Bush, George H.W.), Hurt calls himself a "compassionate conservative" and strongly believes in a foreign policy built on " peace through strength." He opposes the current ...
AlterNet
February 24, 2017
Let's start with Iran. They mistook a nationalist revolution and subsequent civil war within Islam for a singular attack on the U.S.
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 24, 2017
A critic of Donald Trump and a longtime member of the GOP foreign-policy establishment is poised for a senior position at the State Department absent a last-minute veto from the White House, Foreign Policy has learned. Brian Hook, a former assistantÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
February 24, 2017
Trump wants Kushner to handle the Israeli-Palestinian issue too, and Tillerson reportedly wasn't consulted before Trump changed US policy from a two-state solution for Israeli-Palestinian peace and put Iran "on notice" via twitter. Tillerson's pick for ...
The Hill (blog)
February 21, 2017
There are many such exasperating moments in Andrew Scott Cooper's "The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran," an amazing new account of how a modernizing monarch of 37 years led his country from impoverished obscurity into ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 21, 2017
One suspects that, from Bannon's standpoint, Abrams had multiple strikes against him: Not only is he Jewish and a " neocon," hence hostile to isolationism and nativism, but he has vast policymaking experience stretching back to the Ronald Reagan ...
The Scarlet
February 20, 2017
He also embroiled himself in the Iran-Contra scandal later on, securing the release of seven American prisoners for the low price of destabilizing the Middle East for decades.
Observer Online
February 20, 2017
His groundbreaking healthcare law may be dismantled and his greatest foreign policy accomplishment (the Iran deal) may also fall apart.
Daily Kos
February 19, 2017
Ronald Reagan's administration traded arms to Iran for the release of a few American hostages in 1985, using profits from those arms sales to fund a war in Nicaragua, and it took several years and three investigations to unravel the whole mess.
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 16, 2017
And yes, he bragged yet again about his election victory, saying falsely he won the biggest electoral college margin since Ronald Reagan. Trump appeared to relish the ... And I don't have to tell you what I'm going to do with Iran. You know why ...
Voice of America
February 15, 2017
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 14, 2017
CNN
February 13, 2017
Abrams was a former official under President Ronald Reagan. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanors stemming from the Iran-Contra affair and was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush. He went on to serve as deputy national security adviser for PresidentÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 13, 2017
The Hill (blog)
February 13, 2017
Scoop.co.nz
February 13, 2017
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