Maybe this will sharpen the point made in this post. You’ve seen Robert Kagan and Mitt Romney wail and lament President Obama’s rather meager pressures on Israel to get the Netanyahu government to demonstrate its commitment to a negotiated two-state solution. They extrapolate from that case  and a misreading of last year’s missile defense restructuring [...]

A longer version of this Robert Kagan column appears across seven interminable pages in Mitt Romney’s book. There’s nothing wrong with that, in itself, but it’s worth inspecting the claim. Here’s Kagan, who naturally will spend fewer words making a more substantive point than will Romney: This administration pays lip-service to “multilateralism,” but it is [...]

After suffering through Mitt Romney’s book last week, there was absolutely no way I was going through Karl Rove’s memoir. Dave Weigel, however, more than has you covered. Check this insane idea Rove pursued in advance of the post-2006-election firing of Donald Rumsfeld: That summer, I looked into whether FedEx CEO Fred Smith, Bush’s original [...]

Via Matthew Yglesias and ThinkProgress, Romney goes from a supporter of Obama’s Afghanistan approach in the morning to a critic of it in the evening. This after his idiotbook has not a single thing to say about the Afghanistan war. Another stupid thing Romney says and apparently isn’t held accountable for: that Obama in some [...]

A taste: Romney’s central contention is that there are four “strategies” for global power: the United States’ blend of benevolent, market-based hegemony; the Chinese model of political autocracy and unrestrained industry; Russia’s energy-based path to resurgence; and the “violent jihadists,” an agglutination of scary Muslims. Trouble in paradise, according to Romney, comes from President Obama’s [...]

I have just read the foreign policy sections of Mitt Romney’s brand-new book No Apology: The Case For American Greatness and filed a piece about them for the Washington Independent. (Hence today’s slow posting.) It’s currently being edited. My biggest concern for the piece is that I simply lack the narrative and argumentative skill to [...]