Personal tweets from Jim Lobe, Contributing Editor @RStatecraft, director @LobeLog.com (2007-19), DC bureau chief, Inter Press Service (1980-85, 1989-2016).

Seattle, WA
Joined December 2011
nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/ca… US Embassy in Nairobi co-signed this in June. See highlighted sentence.
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I hate Munich analogies, but it seems that Chamberlain and Daladier were far more diplomatic in dealing with a reluctant victim. From The Chicago Tribune:
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Biden nominee for Public Diplomacy Commission, Elliott Abrams, likely to urge US attack on Iran if Israel wishes/initiates. Latest report by Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs to release Monday w/ Abrams & ret. AF Gen. Chuck Wald, who has urged US attack since 2010.
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The IMF is probably the least "democratic" component of the post-WWII "liberal democratic order forged by the United States and it allies." Did the NYT editors mean this ironically? nytimes.com/2023/06/26/busin…
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Good advice from CNAS because Israel's assassination of Iranian scientists was so wildly successful in slowing Iran's nuclear program.
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The Florida Dept of Education's "office of articulation" needs editing lessons. That the Department's website is currently touting its launch of "2023 Black History Month Student and Educator Contests" makes its decision appear even more inexplicable.
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By this standard, the US has been deeply enmeshed into the Saudi/UAE war in Yemen and thus, according to the NYT, may have committed war crimes.
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Why is the 5-Justice majority always referred to as "conservative" when they're clearly reactionary? And why is the Wall Street Journal editorial page referred to as "conservative" when it's pretty consistently loony?
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A.K.A. a form of apartheid.
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The third beautiful sunset in a row from my home office window.
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