Serbia says West is “threatening” it to give up Kosovo

Serbia has blamed the west for “threatening” it to give up Kosovo, according to the Prime Minister, Vojislav Kostunica.  Mr. Kostunica has asked — poetically, I’m sure – whether Serbia will “succumb” to this “violence.”  It’s a bit unclear what “threats” Serbia is receiving, much less how these “threats” amount to “violence.” 
Perhaps the “threat” is that Serbia [...]

Maureen Dowd Op Ed: She’s No Morgenthau (Or Let’s Not Vote For Hillary because . . . because she knows the right people)

I read in the New York Times this morning an interesting op-ed article (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/opinion/21dowd.html?ei=5087&em=&en=08b4e377efcbd515&ex=1195880400&pagewanted=print) from the always entertaining Maureen Dowd.  In Dowd’s op-ed, “She’s No Morgenthau,” Dowd barbs Hillary Clinton because of her lack of foreign policy experience and suggests that she is where she is today because of her connections, as opposed to any identifiable [...]