Posts by Heather Hurlburt

Sports and Suitability - May 04, 2008

DA Book Club Edition: White House Ghosts - April 16, 2008

What Do You Get for Your Money II: GWOT - April 03, 2008

What Do You Get for Your Money: Iraq vs. Afghanistan vs. post-war Germany in constant dollars - April 03, 2008

What Do Walt Whitman, Admiral Fallon, and Waterboarding Have in Common? - March 17, 2008

The Grey Lady Hides Her Best - March 16, 2008

So, Can We Have a Kinder, Gentler General Election? - February 12, 2008

Nation-building: still harder than you think - February 10, 2008

"Based on a clear premise..." - January 28, 2008

After the Commercial Break - January 28, 2008

Economy, Energy, Environment... - January 25, 2008

Let's Get Started, Mr. President - January 10, 2008

Women, National Security and Change - January 09, 2008

Foreign Policy IS Domestic Policy Now - December 21, 2007

Geopolitics Strikes Back - December 19, 2007

News from Our Sponsor: Or Blogs Infiltrate the FP Establishment, Chapter 3 - December 13, 2007

New Thinking for the US Role in Asia - December 05, 2007

Why We Don't Have Enough Diplomats, Vol. XXX - December 05, 2007

Designed Neither to Fail Nor Succeed - November 26, 2007

2007 is Australian for 2008? - November 24, 2007

Americans Say "engagement" Means Guns, Not Wedding Bells - November 14, 2007

Live-Blogging a State Dinner: Color Me Jalouse - November 09, 2007

Intellectually Bankrupt? - November 07, 2007

It Hurts Just as Much - November 02, 2007

The Definition of Chutzpah - October 24, 2007

Political Psychology's Uses and Abuses - October 23, 2007

How to read Foreign Affairs - October 16, 2007

New Names for State Dep't Blog - October 09, 2007

Want to End the War? Start with how a bill becomes a law. - October 09, 2007

Why Americans Think We're Out There Alone - October 04, 2007

The Brooklyn Dodgers Explain Everything? - October 02, 2007

5 Simple Rules for Democracy Promotion - October 01, 2007

Clinton Global Reading List - October 01, 2007

The end of nation-building, and what comes after - September 14, 2007

Jane to Mike [McConnell]: Please Stop. - September 13, 2007

They Hate Us Because Our Diplomats Let Them??? - September 12, 2007

A Thought on the Peaches and Ryan Show - September 12, 2007

Modesty? - August 30, 2007

Who Are Bush's 33%? - August 28, 2007

The Attorney General's No-Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day (try all of them since 2001) - August 27, 2007

How is Speechwriting Like Sausage-Making? Not for the Squeamish - August 23, 2007

Summer Reading List - August 09, 2007

Can Anne-Marie Slaughter and Daily Kos Both Be Right? - July 31, 2007

On a Stack of Coffee Cups - July 31, 2007

Happily Noted: The UN Makes Harry Potter Go 'Round - July 20, 2007

Sadly Noted: We Are "Done" With Iraq, and with its suffering people too - July 20, 2007

What the Baker-Hamilton Commission Could Do Next - July 19, 2007

Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Independents - July 02, 2007

"Setting the Table" on Human Rights, with Dishes We Won't Care For - July 02, 2007

Whither the Military? Maybe We Can Have A Real Debate - June 29, 2007

"Mr. Cruel" - June 26, 2007

Infant Mortality Where? - June 21, 2007

A New Job for Tony? - June 20, 2007

G-8: Not Just One Queasy Stomach - June 08, 2007

Global Economy, Global Primary - June 07, 2007

E.J., We Need to Talk - June 05, 2007

Democracy Is As Democracy... Funds? - June 05, 2007

Worth Reading - June 01, 2007

It's Zoellick - May 29, 2007

Middle East Contrarian, Danish-Style - May 17, 2007

I See London, I See France... - May 16, 2007

The "Change Candidate" - May 08, 2007

A Tale of Two Georges - May 04, 2007

Judge this Administration on its own priorities - April 30, 2007

YouTube and CivMil Relations Theory -- all out the window? - April 27, 2007

Yeltsin: Farewell to the Century - April 25, 2007

Bulletin from France - April 22, 2007

A Small Wish - April 17, 2007

Be All That You Can Be. George Steinbrenner? - April 06, 2007

Congress Says Goodbye, Belgium Says Hello - April 05, 2007

Trade Pacts Vs. Cuddly Kittens - March 30, 2007

Hypocrisy Is Harder to Micromanage than War - March 29, 2007

A Swift Goodbye - March 28, 2007

Black Humor du Jour - March 24, 2007

Democrats Come of Age - March 23, 2007

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - March 15, 2007

Three Queasy Questions - March 13, 2007

National Security and '08: What's Different - March 11, 2007

Look Who's "Harmful" Now - March 09, 2007

At the Movies: The Prisoner - March 06, 2007

Who Says Non-Binding Resolutions Don't Matter? - February 21, 2007

The Cross-tabs don't lie - February 21, 2007

Is This the War Boom at Last? - February 21, 2007

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib - February 21, 2007

GOP Uses Dems (old) National Security Playbook? - February 20, 2007

North Korea: Sharing the Credit - February 13, 2007

More Satire... for Children of the 70s - February 06, 2007

Your Morning Quiz - February 06, 2007

Global to Local: "It Ain't You, Babe" - January 30, 2007

One Speechwriter's Point of View - January 26, 2007

Saddam who? - January 23, 2007

Go Watch Jim Webb - January 23, 2007

Quick SOTU comments - January 23, 2007

Things You Can Do to Make the State of the Union More Interesting - January 23, 2007

The Future is Green... and union made in the midwest - January 18, 2007

Corruption, Iraq and Motes in Our Eyes - January 18, 2007

Did He Meet the Gerson Test? - January 10, 2007

Liveblogging iv: the final windup - January 10, 2007

Regional Solutions: Liveblogging iii - January 10, 2007

Liveblogging II - January 10, 2007

Liveblogging I - January 10, 2007

Curtain-Raiser - January 10, 2007

Live-Blogging on Iraq Tomorrow - January 09, 2007

Negroponte: Benched, or Deep Relief? - January 04, 2007

When January Comes, or if FIFA Ran Iraq - January 03, 2007

Bring a Smile to Your Face - December 20, 2006

MORE Troops for Iraq? - December 12, 2006

8 Events That Could Change Everything - December 11, 2006

1973 or 1968 - December 06, 2006

Why Does This Remind Me of 1973?* - December 06, 2006

We've All Been McNamara'ed - December 03, 2006

"Pinned by Reality" - November 30, 2006

Why Leak the Maliki Government Memo? - November 29, 2006

Trade Policy Strikes Back, Pre-emptively - November 14, 2006

Iraq Blame Game: Michael Ledeen Gets Creative - November 14, 2006

Five Things Congress Could Do in Six Months - November 08, 2006

Brave New... White House? - November 08, 2006

"When Congress Checks Out" - November 02, 2006

Who "lost" Iraq? - November 02, 2006

Iraq: 1963, 1995 or 2006 - October 19, 2006

North Korean Nukes: Three Fallacies (with bonus discussion question) - October 11, 2006

"First, Don't Panic" - October 09, 2006

The Battle and the War - October 07, 2006

Reading Jim Baker's tea leaves - October 03, 2006

Carl Bildt has a blog - September 29, 2006

Troop Withdrawals, Salted Peanuts, and College Football - September 29, 2006

When is it safe to say we're less safe? - September 19, 2006

"Safer, but not Yet Safe" - September 05, 2006

What is Lula Doing Right? - August 31, 2006

The Passion of ... the Council on Foreign Relations - August 29, 2006

Words Matter - August 24, 2006

No Marines to Send - August 22, 2006

A Few Modest Proposals - August 15, 2006

Karen Hughes is at Summer Camp - August 10, 2006

National Security: It's Primary - August 08, 2006

Four Things the Connecticut Primary Won't Change - August 04, 2006

Bush post-Castro policy: your handy primer - August 01, 2006

Who Fears Chaos More? - July 27, 2006

Scorn the Past, Repeat it Twice as Hard - July 19, 2006

Going to the Parade - July 03, 2006

Public Diplomacy: It's About Governing, Not Campaigning - June 28, 2006

Of Curfews and Generators - June 23, 2006

June Surprise: President Bush Visits Iraq - June 13, 2006

Using the World Cup to Think About World Politics - June 12, 2006

Power and Superpower: For Those Keeping Score - June 06, 2006

Power and Superpower: The Leach Critique - June 06, 2006

Power and Super-Power: Globalization: What Would You Do? - June 06, 2006

The Emperor Has No Clothes Award - June 06, 2006

Power and Superpower: The Global Market is Outrunning the Nation-State - June 06, 2006

Foreign Policy Frameworks are Bustin' Out All Over? - June 05, 2006

Whatever Happened to HIV/AIDS? - May 31, 2006

RhetoricWatch: "Turning Point" - May 23, 2006

Five Thoughts on Immigration and National Security - May 17, 2006

So, What About Civilian Control? - May 10, 2006

Answer: in the Watergate - May 05, 2006

Biden Triumphs - May 03, 2006

Divide (Iraq) and Conquer? - May 01, 2006

Public Diplomacy: Equal Opportunity Rudeness? - April 26, 2006

Keeping Up on Iraq and Catching up on Iran: Get Your Scorecards - April 19, 2006

Using Long Knives on Rice? - April 18, 2006

Iran is Not Cuba and Bush is not Kennedy - April 12, 2006

Karen Hughes Visits Airport, Discovers Palestine - April 05, 2006

Plagiarism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism... - March 28, 2006

Iraq: The "Second Betrayal?" - March 27, 2006

Green Eggs and Troop Withdrawal - March 21, 2006

Iraq: Anniversary Waltz to the Exits - March 20, 2006

Any Storm in a Port? - March 08, 2006

... As Others See Us - March 07, 2006

Fukuyama or Berman: Whose History is Ended? - February 22, 2006

A Muslim Secretary General? - February 19, 2006

Iraqi Insurgency in its Own Words - February 15, 2006

Darfur Needs More Cheek and Less Bush - February 14, 2006

What Iraqis Are Thinking - February 07, 2006

Over Their Heads Like a Foul Ball - February 01, 2006

Pre-blog - January 31, 2006

Your State of the Union Checklist - January 29, 2006

Rocks and All, A Moderate Gone - January 25, 2006

Follow the (Power and) Money - January 20, 2006

Tough and Tender - January 17, 2006

Islamic World Top 10 - January 15, 2006

Costs of War - January 10, 2006

Iraq vs.Bosnia - January 04, 2006

Gazprom, Meet Globalization - January 02, 2006

Spinning in a widening gyre of polls - December 21, 2005

Global Good News - December 13, 2005

Hi, I'm the Progressive Movement and I'm an Addict. - December 12, 2005

'The Sky Is Black With Planes?' - December 07, 2005

Euro-Leaders to Rice: Thanks, We Needed That (Not.) - December 06, 2005

"We are losing." - December 04, 2005

"Nothing Less than Complete Victory" - November 30, 2005

Bush Speech Live: "When our mission of defeating the terrorists is complete..." - November 30, 2005

Bush Speech Live -- "Basic Survival Skills" - November 30, 2005

Required Reading - November 29, 2005

Americans "Feed" Withdrawal Timetable to Iraqi Conference - November 22, 2005

Pollwatcher's Corner - November 17, 2005

Did Somebody Say Vietnam? - November 16, 2005

Iraq in Washington: Through the Looking Glass - November 15, 2005

Being John McCain and Reading George W. Bush - November 14, 2005

Europe is Simmering - November 09, 2005

What WaPo Won't Tell Us... - November 03, 2005

Clear, Hold Build: Not So Clear - November 01, 2005

Stepping Back to Look at the Big Picture - October 26, 2005

More Contract for America - October 18, 2005

Judith Miller and UN-Bashing - October 17, 2005

Welcome Roosevelt Institution - October 12, 2005

News Out of Baghdad - October 12, 2005

After Liberal Internationalism, What? - October 11, 2005

Bush Speech: Now We Know - October 06, 2005

Bush at NED: If a speech falls in the forest... - October 06, 2005

Now the Firing Squads: CAP Makes a Proposal for Iraq - October 04, 2005

Bush Official of the Week - September 30, 2005

Commander in Chief - September 27, 2005

Referendum and Next Steps in Iraq - September 27, 2005

Who Will Make Our Foreign Policy? - September 20, 2005

Making Sense of Today's North Korea News - September 19, 2005

What if they had an election and no one won? - September 19, 2005

Using our Military at Home: We're all Nails Now - September 16, 2005

Oink for Oil - September 15, 2005

5 Ideas for the President's UN Speech - September 13, 2005

Memo to Progressives: Cooperation is Good - September 12, 2005

Katrina: The Global Response - September 06, 2005

Katrina and the World - September 02, 2005

Velcro President - September 01, 2005

Meanwhile in Germany - August 30, 2005

The Kurds: Will they stay or will they go? - August 26, 2005

Open Floodgates, Pt 1: Plans for Iraq - August 23, 2005

Who Would Jesus Assassinate? - August 23, 2005

The List Goes On: If Iraq Fails - August 22, 2005

Good News from the Islamic World - August 16, 2005

A Glum Prediction - August 15, 2005

Reading the Tea Leaves, Homefront Edition - August 09, 2005

Not to Praise Arms Control, But to Bury It - August 08, 2005

Bolton Bits - August 02, 2005

Call it Mouse-FTA - August 02, 2005

Attention to Africa: Be Careful What You Wish For - July 26, 2005

Arsenal Abroad: Welcome Anita Sharma - July 15, 2005

Another Go at Exceptionalism - July 15, 2005

Withdraw This? - July 12, 2005

Did I Go to Sleep and Wake Up in 1973? - July 11, 2005

The Public Wants an Energy Policy - July 05, 2005

The Opportunity, a word we've almost forgotten - July 05, 2005

Democracy with Rice - June 30, 2005

The Vietnam Analogy - June 28, 2005

Utterly Predictable - June 28, 2005

'06 & '08: No Illusions - June 24, 2005

Bolton Twisting Slowly... - June 23, 2005

Iraqi Democracy is No Pottery Barn - June 21, 2005

Iraq: The Conversation We Need - June 20, 2005

"Smart" Trade Policy - June 15, 2005

WWHSTD? - June 14, 2005

Five Myths About Polling That Progressives Should Reconsider - June 07, 2005

Global Strategy for GWOE - May 31, 2005

The telephone is ringing... - May 30, 2005

Thud. - May 29, 2005

What Brussels Has Joined: European Disunion II - May 27, 2005

Memo to Karen Hughes - May 24, 2005

Silence, Exile, Cunning: The Red Cross - May 24, 2005

Dana Rohrabacher Got It Right - May 17, 2005

Today, Are Suicide Bombings News, John Tierney? - May 11, 2005

Iraqi Split: Hold off on the chocolate sprinkles, maybe - May 10, 2005

What We Stand For #2 - April 30, 2005

Tomorrow's Headlines Today - April 26, 2005

It'll be the Coverup - April 20, 2005

Fix What's Broken - April 19, 2005

So, if it did happen... - April 19, 2005

Lowering the Tone - April 19, 2005

Something for Everyone - April 12, 2005

Progressives Don't Do Fear - April 10, 2005

Where is Karl Rove when you need him? - April 05, 2005

Can the "Dream Team" Reform its UN Mascot? - April 05, 2005

Drowning, Not Surfing - April 04, 2005

Cryin' in my Kofi - March 30, 2005

Step 1: Don't Blame the Victim - March 28, 2005

When a Kennan Falls in the Forest - March 22, 2005

Honeymoon Rice: Deja vu all over again - March 22, 2005

Wolfowitz: Dreaming of Nixon to China - March 16, 2005

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