Now this is a peculiar strategy for the Clinton campaign. They seem to be eschewing their central Obama attacks — his kindergarten record, horrific plagiarism, being a Negro — for a criticism of his foreign policy judgment, and they’re using “solid evidence” from his Senate career to support it. Isn’t that mean and unfair of Hillary Clinton? Check out this new “issues-based” ad after the jump. MORE »

The cultish Washington Times today featured a front page tell-all about Barack Obama’s military inexperience, and how it has led him to have strange opinions. The Times quoted all sorts of neocon hawks in the military, who believe that Barack Obama’s youthful ignorance on national security has led to him to such wild conclusions as “the surge isn’t winning the war,” “we should withdraw from Iraq at some point” and “the Muslim religion will not bomb America if we act nice to it.” The reliable Washington Times, once again, gets to the heart of the election: How can we elect a man so inexperienced that he isn’t a neocon? MORE »

“The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards dismissed the possibility of U.S. military action against Iran and warned that his forces would respond with an ‘even more decisive’ strike if attacked, an Iranian news agency reported Friday.” [MSNBC]

Bush’s little chat about how we’re sanctioning Myanmar came with a handy guide to pronouncing the difficult words that come up when you’re discussing foreign policy. So naturally Foreign Policy got a copy of the phonetically written speech, so you can play along at home! Here are some of the many, many words our President doesn’t know how to say: MORE »

In a stunning rocket, Rudy Jew-liani basically admitted that he doesn’t know anything at all about foreign policy — or maybe that he knows too much. In an interview with the Jew York Times, Rudy inavertendly revealed that the US has been fighting an entire extra war these last few years that only he knows about. MORE »

Everyone know the UN has failed to solve all those wars and shit it was supposed to solve. This is because it was created and run by pussies. John McCain has a better idea: a thing that’s like the UN but started by a totally tough badass. And instead of like Finland and Sweden and shit it’ll have the USA and, uh… the Green Lantern. MORE »

CNN had an EXCLUSIVE interview with Condi Rice today on the Situation Room today! MORE »

…in Italy! MORE »

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the new U.S. commander in Iraq, is assembling a small band of warrior-intellectuals — including a quirky Australian anthropologist, a Princeton economist who is the son of a former U.S. attorney general and a military expert on the Vietnam War sharply critical of its top commanders — in an eleventh-hour effort to reverse the downward trend in the Iraq war.

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Expect Britain to quit being so nice to us all the time — ’cause they’re finally paid up. MORE »

The war in Iraq is still winnable, says the Bush Administration. The movers and shakers are all in Crawford, Texas winning it right this second, in fact. But we need new, bold ideas from our new, bold Defense Secretary, Robert Gates. Let’s hear one of those ideas: MORE »