Foreign Policy – Delaware Liberal

A Look Back on the Chen Guangcheng Crisis

By nemski May 13, 2012

There are a couple of important lessons regarding the Chen Guangcheng crisis of last week. The first is an understanding of the dissident’s problems and the second is a foreign policy lesson which Mitt Romney failed.

The Saga of Political Dissidents

By nemski May 3, 201220 Comments

We haven't written at all about the escape of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, his rescue, his return and, now, change of heart, but I have a simple question for you…

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Revisited

By nemski January 2, 2011

A historian looks at how the President's control of foreign policy has only increased from the days of Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. There is a long look at the Kennedy Administration which seems pivotal in any understanding of US foreign policy.

Neoconservatives rail against Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki

By xstryker November 19, 20094 Comments

Hah, just kidding. Neocons don't even know where Eritrea is. Afewerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for "three or four decades" or longer because they "polarize…

Time To Lift The Cuban Embargo

By nemski October 29, 20098 Comments

It's been 47 years since the embargo on Cuban goods was put in place by the United States and its been 18 years in a row that the United Nations…

Not So Suddenly Sudan

By nemski October 21, 20094 Comments

After months of hard work and analysis, the Obama Administration recently unveiled its Sudan strategy. According to the US State Department, the Sudan strategy will focus on three areas: A…

Joe Biden Smacks Down Lieberman AND McCain

By cassandra_m May 23, 200826 Comments

When he's good, he's good. Read his WSJ editorial (published today) response to Joe Lieberman's very public bedwetting from Wednesday. Biden starts: Sen. Lieberman is right: 9/11 was a pivotal…