Comment 1: Is Creative Ambiguity an effective response to Creative Chaos? Whatever the answer may be, we will be dealing with them for years to come, and their long-term impact could be equally destructive. (AA) “Beijing’s reluctance to commit to meaningful high-level military-to-military talks is part of an agenda to deliberately foster ambiguity — a well-established approach in both ancient and contemporary Chinese competitive thinking.” (Foreign Policy) Continue reading “The Uncreative Court Jester!”
Tag: Palestine
Of Real Politick and Resistance Ideology!
Comment 1: Michael McFaul’s interest in human rights is quite genuine I am sure. But the Obama’s Administration rather cynical sense of realpolitik has made a mockery of any talk of human rights. The Russian activists are right: this is political theater, and it is badly directed at that. Since the commitment is obviously not real, as the Freedom Agenda is no longer on the table, Obama might as well shy away from any show of hypocrisy in this regard. No amount of political theater can undo the damage done to America’s standing or the cause of freedom. Spare us. Continue reading “Of Real Politick and Resistance Ideology!”
Should The United States Engage Syria? A Saban Center Policy Forum Debate
The Saban Center for Middle East Policy hosted a debate on October 23, 2006 between Joshua Landis, assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, and Ammar Abdulhamid, a Saban Center Nonresident Fellow, on whether the United States should engage with Syria. Martin S. Indyk, Director of the Saban Center, formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs and twice U.S. Ambassador to Israel, and Tamara Cofman Wittes, Saban Center Research Fellow and Director of the Arab Democracy and Development Program, chaired the event. Continue reading “Should The United States Engage Syria? A Saban Center Policy Forum Debate”
Israel and Syria: To talk or not to talk…
“Greetings from your Israeli reader and occasional correspondent. I’d be interested in hearing your views on the following matter.
Shimon Peres, Israel’s inveterate devotee of the peace process, has ruffled a few feathers in the Prime Minister’s office by calling for negotiations with Syria. This, in response to an apparent spate of newspaper interviews by Assad suggesting the peace process could move forward (ignoring, or winking an eye at Assad’s simultaneous beating of the war drums). A prominent conservative Israeli economic columnist made an argument this morning in the economic supplement of Haaretz that now is the time for Israel to play the Syrian card, since Assad is opposed to Muslim fundamentalism, and peace with Israel could move him away from his alliance with Iran. Continue reading “Israel and Syria: To talk or not to talk…”
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 