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Archive for August, 2007

Canada and Iraq: A Looming Foreign Policy Challenge

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Yesterday, David and I had the following oped in the Toronto Star.  Let me just add that the point is not that we should be sending in troops, but that the current default positions of pretending the crisis does not exist and blaming the Americans for screwing it up, are simply untenable for a country [...]

Defending Ignatieff’s ‘mea culpa’

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Whatever else we can say about Michael Ignatieff, he piques emotions, spurs debates and creates headlines with a fervor that is unrivaled in Canada.
True to form, his essay in last week’s NYT magazine has received the column inches usually reserved for the Health Act and the Stanley Cup. So just what did [...]

A Belated Happy Birthday Blogs

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

I forgot to post this here when it was published last week, but David Eaves and I had the following op-ed in the Toronto Star:
Blogosphere at age 10 is improving journalism
Although hard to believe, this month marks the 10th anniversary of blogging, a method for regularly publishing content online.
And what a milestone it is. A [...]

Samatha Powers and the WoT

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

On a train from Rome to Venice, I just tucked into Samantha Power’s review essay on the future of War on Terror in this Sunday’s Times.  Again, she shows why she a leading driver of an emerging liberal foreign policy position that deviates at once from the utopian militarism of neoconservationism, the isolationism of realism, [...]