If mentioning my friends is beginning to sound like I’m congratulating myself on my own popularity, I apologize. As it happens, however, one of my good friends is about to ship out to Afghanistan with the U.S. Army and some of my old friends in the Air Force ROTC are about to be commissioned asContinue reading “An update on Afghanistan”
Tag Archives: foreign policy
Honduras
This past week, the media has made a crack in its myopic coverage of Michael Jackson to give us a few peeks of the situation in Honduras, which is fast becoming another foreign policy test of the Obama administration. Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya was attempting to hold a national referendum to create an assemblyContinue reading “Honduras”
Iran
By now, we all know the story. Iran’s leaders released statistically suspicious results to the latest presidential election and as a result the streets exploded in protest. The Iranian leadership had two options: Back down and hold new elections that would probably be won by the man they tried to stop, or assert their authorityContinue reading “Iran”
North Korea
Four months into his presidency, Barack Obama has met his first foreign policy crisis. North Korea has decided that they are going to take advantage of the opportunity to try and push around the new president and see what they can get out of him. In the past few weeks, North Korea has test-fired aContinue reading “North Korea”
