As speculation mounts that Hillary Clinton is to be offered the post of Secretary of State, there have been a slew of articles and opinions on whether Obama is making the right choice. Karen Tumulty and Massimo Calabresi at Time take the view that Hillary will make a good Secretary of State. As a e...
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A couple of weeks ago when I was in India, I had a chat with a friend who is a software engineer. The conversation was on the following lines:
Friend: ‘I hope Obama will win. I am sure Obama will win. I can’t imagine Obama not winning.’
Me: ‘You mean you want Obama to win?&r...
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In the fall of 2002, two academics, John Mearsheimer of Chicago University and Stephen Walt of Harvard (M & W) were commissioned by the Atlantic Monthly to write an article about the influence of the Israeli lobby on American foreign policy. M & W came up with an article that talked of a ve...
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