December 2009
16 posts
csmonitor.com -> Left and right, pundits applaud...
Liberal and conservative pundits both approve of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech. They like his humility and his realism.
If nothing else, the American punditocracy largely agreed on one aspect of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech: that it was eloquent. In offering a tutorial on just war theory, laid out in clear prose and compellingly delivered, Mr. Obama and his speechwriters...
NYT: No Firm Plans for a U.S. Exit in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration sent a forceful public message Sunday that American military forces would remain in Afghanistan for a long time, seeking to blunt criticism that Mr. Obama had sent the wrong signal in his war-strategy speech last week by projecting July 2011 as the start of a withdrawal. In a flurry of coordinated television interviews by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates,...