Defense expert lauds Obama’s foreign policy
Derek Chollet, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, told Duke students he thought President Barack Obama’s diplomacy will stand the test of time Tuesday evening.
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Derek Chollet, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, told Duke students he thought President Barack Obama’s diplomacy will stand the test of time Tuesday evening.
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David Petraeus is seated on stage, one leg over the other. The spotlight shines. A vase of flowers shimmers on the table. Sept. 11, 2013, Duke University. His first paid engagement since leaving the CIA in disgrace. A giant placard to his right reads “American Grand Strategy,” the title of the program that brought him here.
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Now that the political conventions are over with, there’s no excuse for you not to be able to attend one of Duke’s many events this week.
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Peter Feaver, Alexander F. Hehmeyer professor of political science and director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, was quoted in the New York Times Sunday. The article, by Peter Baker, discusses how President Barack Obama has gained few concessions from foreign leaders, despite the good will he has built up abroad.
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David Petraeus, left, analyzed an array of pressing national security topics with political science professor Peter Feaver, right.
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What does it mean to honor a man who made his name at the helm of our generation’s greatest human catastrophes? Is it, as Duke political scientist Peter Feaver fawns, to congratulate “one of the most celebrated military leaders of our time,” gifted with “strategic vision”? Who, exactly, amid the slow implosion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the dull hum of cruise missiles lobbed toward nameless villagers across the Global South, the countless dead and dying in a regional, sectarian war arguably fomented by David Petraeus, is celebrating?