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Janine Davidson | Obama's Last National Security Strategy | Foreign Affairs - 2 views

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  • The president’s second National Security Strategy articulates a belief in a peaceful, rules-based international order; it also reaffirms the fact that none of this can happen without the leadership of the United States. For scholars seeking to trace broader themes in the president’s foreign policy strategy, the document promises good historical value. But to expect it to provide definitive answers to every crisis that now simmers across the globe—that’s asking a bit much of any NSS.
  • Recent announcements regarding military assistance to Ukraine, an authorization to use military force against ISIS, and hint
  • s of a shift in the drawdown in Afghanistan may signal a recognition of these mismatches. With two years left in the White House, perhaps this document will mark a few course corrections.
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  • It is a thankless job to issue a new National Security Strategy, as U.S. President Barack Obama did this month. Its creation is a churn of dozens of drafts circulated among scores of hapless staffers, each of whom is tasked with name checking his or her very specific issue. There’s little room for prioritization or bold new ideas; any artful turns of phrase are quickly ground into merciless governmentese.
  • This strategy is the second and last of Obama’s presidency, and it rightly describes a world beset by challenges and in dire need of American leadership (“lead,” “leader,” and “leadership” appear 94 times in the context of the United States’ role in the world).
  • It’s a thoughtful approach that strives to cast an eye beyond the geopolitical brushfires of the day and into planning years or even decades into the future.
  • The United States can’t identify a problem, shock-and-awe its way to victory, and expect to come home with all the loose ends neatly tied up. The world simply doesn’t work that way.
  • On the other hand, the terrible consequences of the United States’ 2003 cowboy-hooting, gunslinging invasion of Iraq illustrate precisely the reason a policy of strategic patience must exist today.
  • decisive action against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) as it gathered momentum in early June 2014.
  • bennordpaskin on 03 Mar 15
     
    Article that describes Obama's second National Security Strategy; the document expresses a desire for rule based international order and the necessity for the leadership of the United States.
  • campbellcondon on 03 Mar 15
     
    Obama's National Security Strategy has a higher chance of succeeding a little bit better due to this stricter rules on international order.
lcrogers

In Kim Davis case, whose liberties are truly under attack? | TheHill - 0 views

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  • lcrogers on 19 Oct 15
     
    While I see each side, the side of Ms Davis, who was expressing her religion, and the side of the lgbtq+ individuals who were denied a government document that should have been their right to have, there is really no argument. Kim Davis is a government official, and the fact that she does not believe in the constitutionality of gay marriage should have never prohibited her from doing her job. She refused a public service, it is as simple as that.
bennordpaskin

Emails prove Hillary 'terror' lie in Benghazi - 1 views

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  • State Department emails released through a lawsuit by Judicial Watch show then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew while the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi was under way that it was being carried out by terrorists.
  • “And it is inescapable that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knowingly lied when she planted the false story about ‘inflammatory’ material being posted on the Internet,’” Fitton said.
  • Despite her three top staff members being informed that a terrorist group had claimed credit for the attack, Clinton, issued an official statement, also produced to Judicial Watch, claiming the attack may have been “a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.”
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  • “I would have thought a serious congressional investigation into Benghazi would have started with the documents we had, since Judicial Watch has led in exposing the White House cover-up,” he said.
  • bennordpaskin on 03 Mar 15
     
    Chronicle article employed to defame Hillary Clinton. The article cites several emails as sources to prove Clinton's alleged lies concerning an attack in benghazi 2012. 
  • natedurrett on 04 Mar 15
     
    I don't see how this could not just be a terrorist group that responded to internet material they found offensive. Terrorists have access to internet as well.
eleanorthorp

Forget broadcasting, the future is narrowcasting - 2 views

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  • mstorey12 on 29 Oct 14
     
    Chris Cramer is Global Editor of Multimedia at Reuters News and has editorial oversight of Reuters Insider, a multimedia information service for Thomson Reuters financial service subscribers that will be launched this year. Media organizations the world over are currently focusing on the future of their businesses.
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  • natedurrett on 29 Oct 14
     
    I agree with this document, it has very good points as to why narrowcasting is a more effective strategy due to the high probability of consumers being targeted to respond to these ads
  • Joanne Kim on 29 Oct 14
     
    although I mainly agree with the article, I still think broadcasting has a role in the media.
  • danielacon on 30 Oct 14
     
    I think news are always going to be relevant so broadcasting is always going to have a place in the market.
  • eleanorthorp on 29 Oct 15
     
    Something that I came to mind when reading this if we completely eliminate broadcasting will it create a bias between interests or the types of shows shown? Just something to think about.
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