Category Archives: Obama

May 23, 2011

79 Notes on Obama’s Middle East Speech

Adam Garfinkle

As I have done on a few occasions before, I comment here on President Obama’s speech of May 19 by annotating his text. I do this by attaching footnotes to those passages on which I wish to comment. These notes … Continue reading →

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May 20, 2011

Podcast: Obama’s Speech on the Middle East

Damir Marusic

After President Obama’s May 19th address on his Middle East policy, I sat down with AI Editor Adam Garfinkle. In his previous life, Adam was speechwriter for both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice when they served as Secretary of State … Continue reading →

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March 31, 2011

No Illusions

Daniel Kennelly

Andrew Sullivan is shocked and appalled that President Obama now seems committed to stretching coalition involvement in Libya beyond the narrow confines of the UN Security Council resolution: It’s so surreal, so discordant with what the president has told the … Continue reading →

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March 23, 2011

Against Humanitarian Intervention

Damir Marusic

The argument one’s been hearing most of all from critics of the intervention in Libya has been over consistency. If we’re so keen on invading Libya for ostensibly humanitarian reasons, why aren’t we fighting a war in Bahrain, Yemen or … Continue reading →

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September 3, 2010

54 Notes on Obama’s Iraq Speech

Adam Garfinkle

On December 3, 2009, two days after President Obama’s speech on the Afghan War at West Point, my annotations to that speech appeared in AI Cont’d.  Altogether I wrote 90 notes to the President’s text, some having to do with … Continue reading →

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