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Barack Obama, China, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Deutschland, Dictatorship, European Union, extrajudicial execution, France, Germany, History, human rights, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, Iran, Libya, Libya, NATO, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, sanctions, self-defense, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes October 21, 2014

REPRISE — The fruits of pacifist foreign policies: Aggression in Ukraine, atrocities in Syria

Viewing the developing Russian-Ukrainian war from the vantage point of March 3, 2014, it is striking to note how much of what has happened since…

Barack Obama, Central African Republic, China, Crimes Against Humanity, Deutschland, France, genocide, Germany, History, International Law, kosovo, Libya, Mali, NATO, Russia, Serbia, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, Torture, U.N. Charter, U.S Foreign Relations, U.S. Congress, Ukraine, United Nations Secretary General, United States, use of force, war crimes March 3, 2014

The fruits of pacifist foreign policies: Aggression in Ukraine, atrocities in Syria; Merkel’s fact-finding mission—a last chance to avert disaster?

The new hybrid pacifism The new, hybrid pacifism of Barack Obama and NATO countries has been obscured by Obama’s use of drones, and military operations…

Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, History, human rights, NSA, Russia, State Department, syria, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Congress, U.S. Intervention, United States February 6, 2014

Obama’s incompetence, America’s isolationism, and foreign policy consequences in the world out there

Developing See Richard Cohen, “Isolationism’s high price,” Washington Post, February 3, 2014. “Isolationism, with drones: Obama’s second-term foreign policy, The Trenchant Observer, January 12, 2013….

Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Crimes Against Humanity, Russia, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, Ukraine, war crimes January 24, 2014

Words do not make it so: John Kerry’s denial of America’s retreat from the world

Secretary of State John Kerry has made a vigorous verbal argument at Davos that the U.S. is not in retreat around the world. But words…