Former U.S. Ambassador, retired career Foreign Service officer, still writing that long-delayed biography of Tudor humanist Mildred Cooke Cecil. Not as diplomatic as I once was.
Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson
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Bombing as a temper tantrum.
Brian Finucane
Mike Luckovich
Just when I think I can’t despise this administration more than I do, they up the ante.
Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress.
It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress.
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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson
Acyn
This is an outrage and a clear abuse of power and a violation of both the Constitution and the oaths of office. And scary as hell for anyone who believes in freedom.
Resuming airstrikes on Iran won't resolve this war. It will put American troops at greater risk and move us further from a deal.
Man, the Trump team really hates the U.S. Constitution and its pesky 1st Amendment.
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Another administration dumbass who knows absolutely nothing about what he’s talking about here at home, much less in Northern Ireland, which he probably couldn’t find on the damn map. And he’s the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Do you feel really safer now than you did two years ago?
The State Department is reportedly targeting Trita Parsi.
Whatever they’re smoking on the Hill today must be very strong indeed.
Foreign Policy for America
Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson
“The death of democracy is rarely announced with a loud and dramatic blow. Instead, it often arrives through quiet normalization: a rule bent here, an institution weakened there.”
Yes.
Jon B. Wolfsthal
Trump’s bigoted travel ban means fans from Iran, Haiti, Senegal, and Ivory Coast are prohibited from entering the US to attend World Cup games.
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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson
Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson
Radley Balko
Trump plans to deport over two dozen individuals to the Central African Republic, including two Iranian women with no criminal record who sought refuge in the US.
This is absurd – the US officially advises against any travel there. This flight must be stopped.
Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
AAD Amember Amb. Charles Ray discusses the erosion of democracy in the U.S., citing the revival of Schedule F, the hollowing-out of oversight, and the undermining of judicial decisions. He says, "the most alarming developments may be the least theatrical."
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