UK drafts Iraq pullout plan includes US numbers

Once again, the UK media has actually flexed its’ journalistic muscle and produced this leak to the Mail newspaper in London yesterday. One wonders what happened to the “skillz” of the US media in this area… but I digress. The Mail has the Full Memo Decisions on coalition, and within that, UK force levels will …

Amnesty calls on governments to arrest US Officials

Wow. I gotta say, even I thought that I was going a little over the top with my assertions that President George W. Bush and his cohorts should arrested and tried for their crimes. But now I see that Amnesty Internationals annual report, and their Executive Director in the US, agrees with me (though on …

International Policy Statement: Diplomacy in UN

As we saw in my first post, there are some substantive changes to how Foreign Affairs will be presenting itself abroad and domestically. Obviously one of the most important forums in which Foreign Affairs can effect global change is the UN and while much of what has been said about the UN in the Statement …