Across the Aisle Bipartisan Foreign Policy

Category: Politics

Date: November 02, 2009

Website address: http://blog.psaonline.org/

Description: A bipartisan blog on U.S. foreign policy and national security.

Image of Across the Aisle Bipartisan Foreign Policy

Submitter:

Name: PSA

RSS Feed of Across the Aisle Bipartisan Foreign Policy

Nothing is Too Good For Our Boys So That’s What We’ll Give Them: Nothing: Part 3

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:22:59 +0000

It has been nearly two months since I last wrote about the health of American military personnel and veterans so let’s look at it again. The news, unfortunately, isn’t any better. First, let’s look at the past. Today the Los Angeles times reports that researchers have found that soldiers who ...

http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/07/20/nothing-is-too-good-for-our-boys-so-that%e2%80%99s-what-well-give-them-nothing-part-3/

The Cost of Dropping the Ball in Kyrgyzstan

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:09:58 +0000

Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet state in Central Asia, has made many headlines after its corrupt President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was toppled in April. On June 10th, riots erupted between the Kyrgyz and the Uzbek minority in Bakiyev’s stronghold Osh, leaving hundreds dead and sending a flood of refuges to...

http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/07/15/the-cost-of-dropping-the-ball-in-kyrgyzstan/

Zimbabwe’s Dirty Diamond Revenue: Approving Zimbabwe’s diamonds under the Kimberley Process will hinder political change

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:12:45 +0000

For the past 8 months, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Mines has been amassing a huge stockpile of diamonds plucked from the Marange diamond field in the eastern part of the country. The stockpile, which now tips the scale at around 4.6 million carats, is the unwanted byproduct of the Kimberley Process, t...

http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/07/14/zimbabwes-dirty-diamond-revenue-approving-zimbabwes-diamonds-under-the-kimberly-process-will-hinder-political-change/

The Prospects for the Oil Spill and Deficit Commissions

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:32:59 +0000

Today’s headlines have heralded two important new developments concerning the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: BP might finally be able to cap the gushing oil well, and the Obama administration has placed a new moratorium on deep-water drilling. Another event of potentially equal importance is receiving...

http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/07/13/the-prospects-for-the-oil-spill-and-deficit-commissions/

Gen. McChrystal is no Gen. MacArthur

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:24:57 +0000

I was out of town when the kerfuffle about the article about Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone magazine became public. Now that I am back and have read the article I am amazed at how little it takes to get a general fired. I mean, for pity’s sake, this was not something on the order [...] ...

http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/07/06/gen-mcchrystal-is-no-gen-macarthur/