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Annotating Obama’s 2006 speech against boosting the debt limit
www.washingtonpost.com-January 15, 2013
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills. ... I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.”
— Then-Sen. Barack Obama, floor speech in the Senate, March 16, 2006
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We Are the 98 Percent
www.american.com-January 08, 2013
The only way to finance a big European-style state is to have it paid for by massive taxation of everyone, mostly the middle class. Right now, we are avoiding honest debate on this fact.
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Time for leaders to delegate on the budget
www.washingtonpost.com-January 04, 2013
The agreement on the “fiscal cliff” left the nation’s major economic problems — its federal deficit and debt, high unemployment and low growth — on the negotiating-room floor. What went wrong?
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Across-the-board cuts disarm nation's defense
www.politico.com-March 28, 2012
We joined earlier this year to introduce a bill that replaces the across-the-board cuts imposed by the Budget Control Act — cuts to both defense and nondefense programs — with more responsible savings.
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A Defense Budget at the Crossroads
www.cfr.org-February 08, 2012
The U.S. defense budget is an annual snapshot of national security priorities, including the resources an administration believes are necessary to protect and promote the country's interests, safeguard the global commons, and provide humanitarian aid. Defense budgets viewed over time provide a rough narrative of the role the U.S. military plays in the global security environment, where the projection of power is tightly tethered to economic strength.
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Who Reviews The U.S. 'Kill List'?
www.la.times.com-February 05, 2012
There has been remarkably little public debate in the U.S. about drone strikes, which have killed at least 1,300 people in Pakistan alone since President Obama came to office.
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Obama's Latest Crisis: Iran
www.politico.com-February 04, 2012
A few months ago, President Barack Obama looked like he could claim 2012 bragging rights as a deft foreign policy leader.
Iran threatens to change all that.
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Winners And Losers Of The Defense Budget
www.foreignaffairs.com-January 28, 2012
Is Donald Rumsfeld still at work at the Pentagon? The twice-former defense secretary came to the Pentagon in early 2001 with a plan to shift expenses away from manpower and toward technology, but 9/11, Iraq, and Afghanistan pulled him away from that course and eventually pushed him out of the building. But judging from the news out of Washington this week, Rumsfeld's high-tech, lean headcount vision for the U.S. military has finally prevailed. The Pentagon's new way forward could hardly be more Rumsfeldian.
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McManus: Obama's modest proposal on defense
www.la.times.com-January 08, 2012
As he unveiled his administration's new blueprint for U.S. defense strategy last week, President Obama sought to vaccinate himself against charges that he was gutting the nation's military.
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The New US Strategy: Asking the Right Questions
www.csis.org-January 05, 2012
President Obama, Secretary Panetta, and Chairman Dempsey have laid out the broad framework of a new defense strategy in conceptual terms. It is important to note, however, that concepts are easier. What counts are details and implementation.
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How To Save Iraq From Civil War
www.nytimes.com-December 28, 2011
IRAQ today stands on the brink of disaster. President Obama kept his campaign pledge to end the war here, but it has not ended the way anyone in Washington wanted. The prize, for which so many American soldiers believed they were fighting, was a functioning democratic and nonsectarian state. But Iraq is now moving in the opposite direction — toward a sectarian autocracy that carries with it the threat of devastating civil w
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Can Washington Fix Its Debts and Deficits?
www.cfr.org-December 23, 2011
The debate over extending the Social Security payroll tax holiday, a measure that affects 160 million Americans, is only the most recent phase of the partisan struggle that has impeded efforts to forge sound fiscal policy. Parties finally agreed to a two-month extension of the tax cut, which is set to expire January 1, but lawmakers remain divided over how to pay for it over the remainder of 2012.
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An Absence of Strategic Thinking
www.foreignaffairs.com-December 16, 2011
The withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from Afghanistan cannot properly be described as international, an exit, or a strategy. The so-called transition to Afghan leadership by the end of 2014 is a timetable driven largely by U.S. domestic politics. When this timetable is complete, Afghanistan will still be at war.
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The Three Futures for Afghanistan
www.foreignaffairs.com-December 16, 2011
Ten years after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the gains that the international coalition has made with its local partners are real but reversible. Afghanistan is no longer a global hub of terrorist activity, but a Taliban resurgence would threaten to make it one again.
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The Case for Continuing the Counterinsurgency Campaign In Afghanistan
www.foreignaffairs.com-December 16, 2011
U.S. and allied forces have made great progress in Afghanistan since the start of the counterinsurgency campaign in early 2010. But critical military tasks remain -- and these can only be accomplished by a substantial deployment of U.S. troops.
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