http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/ This is a special section of the Quo Vadis site containing timely news and opinion articles related to topics being considered in the UMD "Second Half" study group on American Foreign Policy. For links to other study materials, return to the Quo Vadis home page. en-us 2004-01-28T15:47:52-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000920.html Dishonor Guard The link above is to a piece in The American Prospect by Paul Waldman which takes up the matter of Bush's Air National Guard record in the wake of Michael Moore's remark about W being a deserter and... The media Donald Douglas 2004-01-28T15:47:52-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000916.html Dean's Scream At least one media writer has tried to create a context for the shouts that Dean uttered to his followers after the results of the caucases were in. Just as the media had created a false context for... The media Donald Douglas 2004-01-27T11:23:28-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000913.html Press Think This item from Tom Paine.com is quite cogent in its own right. It will also take you to a blog that I am going to bookmark. He opens with There are seven interlocking parts in a kind of... The media Donald Douglas 2004-01-24T15:12:35-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000900.html A Strategy of Partnerships This is the lengthy essay carrying Colin Powell's name which appears in the January/February 2004 issue of journal Foreign Affairs. It is surreal, making assertions that are contradicted by the facts. Summary: Pundits claim that U.S.... Topic 1: Alone or together Donald Douglas 2004-01-14T10:51:05-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000898.html Answer the &$%#* Question! The Columbia Journalism Review has a pair of worthy essays this issue. One sheds light on what is the matter with the television interview by professional journalists: their subjects have been trained to dodge them by... The media Donald Douglas 2004-01-12T17:22:37-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000893.html Is It Anti-semitic To Criticise Neocons? Josh Marshall takes on two conservative authors who seek to smear any criticism of neocons as rooted in hateful antisemitism. Here's his concluding comment. What's being practiced here isn't argument. These are rhetorical brickbats... The media Donald Douglas 2004-01-06T09:49:34-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000892.html Guardian Unlimited | Special reports Let the hypocricy games begin! This piece opens with the following: The White House has retreated from its doctrine of regime change and pre-emptive military action and is returning to traditional diplomacy in an effort... Topic 1: Alone or together Donald Douglas 2004-01-04T15:57:37-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000882.html Nigeria: Happiest Nation on Earth? Well... i thought this was a joke at first, but it isn't - and somewhere in here is a profound lesson, though I'm not sure where.... Topic 4: US and Nigeria Greg Stone 2003-12-29T14:26:37-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000877.html Op-Ed Columnist: The China Threat? This is a real interesting take on China. For me, it raises the question of what will happen when a nation the size of China is as strong, or stronger than us? Will we, by... Topic 6: China in transition Greg Stone 2003-12-20T03:42:30-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000866.html C-SPAN This is a 2-hour C-Span program that features a couple real, live neocons: Richard Perle and Gary Shmitt (Ex Dir of Project for New American Century). For balance it also features Josh Marshall, one of my reliable bloggers (though... Topic X - Alone or Together Revisited Donald Douglas 2003-12-16T19:59:00-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000859.html Yahoo! News - EU in Crisis as Constitution Summit Collapses... Topic 7: Europe - state of the union Greg Stone 2003-12-13T18:17:44-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000856.html Contracts for Iraq When the prime Neocon journal publically slams the work of one of its number as stupid and to be abandoned, you know there's some heat going down. William Kristol and Robert Kagan write: A deviously smart American... Topic X - Alone or Together Revisited Donald Douglas 2003-12-12T17:54:27-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000855.html Neocons' ExperienceShock and Awe Talk about a grabber for an opening paragraph . . . A funny thing happened to President George W Bush's policy of regime change in Iraq. It had the sobering experience of bumping into a strange... Topic X - Alone or Together Revisited Donald Douglas 2003-12-12T10:29:17-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000851.html Iran's Nobel Winner Hits Out at U.S. Foreign Policy Hmmmm... this one says something about human rights being women's rights and how the world views us, and . . . well, read it an weep. It's our country she's talking... Topic X - Alone or Together Revisited Greg Stone 2003-12-11T01:15:05-05:00 http://www.giveyoujoy.net/qv/news/archives/000850.html Appeasing China? You've gotta love it when the Neocons bash Bush. Its statement, signed by PNAC chairman and Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, PNAC co-founder Robert Kagan, and its executive director, Gary Schmitt, assailed Bush for failing to address Beijing's... Topic X - Alone or Together Revisited Donald Douglas 2003-12-10T12:16:56-05:00