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By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyWith the sands shifting in the crisis in Egypt, the Obama administration on Saturday gave its support to a gradual transition in government to prepare for new elections in September. The decision to support efforts by Egypt's vice president, Gen. Omar Suleiman, to forge a compromise with opposition groups was announced by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a conference of European leaders in Munich, the New York Times reported. Clinton's statement was a departure from President Obama's demands as recently as Friday afternoon calling on the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, to make ...
Presidential Pilot Remembers Flights Both Fancy and Fraught With Danger
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsHe sits on a couch thumbing through a photo album. "Here's Dwight Eisenhower," he says. "And LBJ, Gerald Ford, Leonid Brezhnev and Walter Cronkite." Famed Army One helicopter pilot, Retired Master Army Aviator Lt. Col. Gene Boyer, is glancing over the images that defined his life. He stops and recalls, wistfully, what it was like to get to know John Steinbeck during the Vietnam War. He was amazing, Boyer told AOL News during a recent interview. "The great Steinbeck. And just look what he wrote about us helicopter pilots." Chris Epting Helicopter pilot Lt. Col. Gene Boyer -- who ...
What New START Means for Politics and National Security
By not in system - AOL NewsThe New START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia passed a procedural Senate vote by 67 to 28 on Tuesday, enough "yes" votes for it to pass the ratification vote expected today. Since Mitt Romney denounced the treaty this summer, a number of Republicans have attempted to block its ratification, despite a bipartisan near consensus among the punditry in favor of the treaty and the support of every living secretary of state, including Henry Kissinger. Now that it appears likely to pass, here's reporting and commentary on the treaty, its ratification and what it all means. From the ...
Opinion: A Fresh START Between US and Russia
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(Aug. 3) -- In the long history of arms control treaties between the U.S. and Russia, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is a modest affair. It sets a limit for the U.S. and Russia of 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads -- down from 2,200 under a 2002 pact. Russia is already at or below the limit of 800 delivery vehicles. Even if START is ratified, the U.S. and Russia can still destroy each other -- and for that matter, the entire world -- several times over. Plus, the biggest nuclear menace to mankind today isn't a doomsday scenario of battling superpowers, but that a small group ...
NKorea: To Bomb or Not to Bomb Was the Question
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(July 7) -- If North Korea is playing political and military poker, it seems they hold all the top cards. It's been a pain in the side of every Washington administration since the war of the 1950s, and judging from recently declassified papers, it's not a problem that's going to go away anytime soon. Even a nuclear option that included bombing up to 12 military targets was considered by the Nixon administration and then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, the papers revealed, after a U.S. spy plane was shot down by Pyongyang in 1969, killing all 31 crewmen aboard. It was rejected for ...
'Beyond the Killing Fields': On the Language of War
By Sydney Schanberg - Politics DailyFive Politics Daily staffers -- Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady -- are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg, about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, "Beyond The Killing Fields" and his reporting career. Here is Schanberg's response to Grady, who asked him to expand on the concept of language as a political weapon and also talk a bit about some of the truly Orwellian examples of Khmer Rouge "politically correct" speech. As you point out, language ...
Madeleine Albright's Diplomatic Jewelry: 'Read My Pins' at Smithsonian
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyLet me start by saying I am a jewelry junkie. Gold. Silver. Brass. Glass. Bakelite. Fakelite. Mother of Plastic. Cultured Pearl. Titanium. Rubber. Leather. Feather. It doesn't matter. I love every piece I own. And when I need a really serious fix of eye-popping eye candy, I head over to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum to ogle the Hope Diamond. Now, just in time for summer, there is a new exhibition of baubles, many of them frankly fake, at the nearby Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall. They belong to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who famously turned her bodice ...
The Ken Starr Now Making Headlines Is Not the Ken Starr You Might Be Thinking Of
By James Burnett - Politics DailyThis Kenneth Starr: Is a Manhattan money manager with a glittery client list who stands accused of running a Ponzi scheme. That Other Kenneth Starr: Is a former Independent Counsel and occasional author. This Kenneth Starr: Counts Henry Kissinger among his alleged victims. (Others include Caroline Kennedy, Uma Thurman, Candice Bergen, Martin Scorcese, Ron Howard, and Jacob the Jeweler.) That Other Kenneth Starr: Nearly took down President Clinton. (But interestingly, has defended Elena Kagan.) This Kenneth Starr: Graduated from Brooklyn Law School. That Other Kenneth Starr: Graduated ...
Kissinger's 1976 Cable Sheds More Light on 'Operation Condor'
By Peter Kornbluh - Politics DailyOn the morning of Sept. 21, 1976, former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier and two young colleagues drove to work in the scenic Washington neighborhood known as Embassy Row. As Letelier's Chevrolet Chevelle passed the residency of the Chilean ambassador and rounded Sheridan Circle, a bomb placed under the driver's seat by agents of the Chilean secret police detonated. Letelier, a vocal critic of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, died at the scene. His 26-year-old colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, bled to death from a shard of metal that struck her jugular vein. Her husband, Michael ...
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