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Editorial page editor Patrick O’Callahan oversees the online and printed opinion sections of The News Tribune. He came to The News Tribune in 1987 and has worked at Washington newspapers since 1979. E-mail him at patrick.ocallahan@thenewstribune.com
Editorial writer Cheryl Tucker, in addition to writing commentary, manages the daily production of the editorial and op-ed pages and edits letters to the editor. She began her journalism career in 1974 at a Virginia newspaper and came to The News Tribune in 1978. E-mail her at cheryl.tucker@thenewstribune.com.
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Editor emeritus David Seago retired from The News Tribune in 2008 after 41 years at The News Tribune. E-mail him at sds99@harbornet.com.
Richard Davis’ column on state politics frequently runs in the print edition of The News Tribune. He was president of the Washington Research Council, a statewide think tank, from 1986 through 2006. Currently, as a principal with The Simeon Partnership, Inc. he coordinates the activities of the Washington Alliance for a Competitive Economy, a business coalition founded by the Research Council, the Association of Washington Business and the Washington Roundtable.
Karen Irwin of University Place, a mother of four, has been a frequent contributor to The News Tribune's print editions. She has also written for Seattle's Child, Puget Sound Parent, the Tacoma Weekly, the Fayetteville Observer Times and the political blog Right Meets Left. She graduated from California Lutheran University with a degree in English literature and is currently working toward a history degree.
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It would be wonderful if Barack Obama’s glowing vision of warm and cooperative U.S.-Russian relations became a reality. But history hasn’t been kind to such hopes.
Obama talks about hitting the “reset button” with Russia, and he’s been passing out bundles of olive branches in Moscow this week. On Tuesday, he repudiated traditional conceptions of great-power rivalry and the notion “that the United States and Russia are destined to be antagonists and that a strong Russia or a strong American can only assert themselves in opposition to one another.”
It takes two to tango, though. Obama no doubt believes what he’s telling Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev. But Russia’s leaders aren’t prone to idealism. If they regard the United States as a powerful potential menace – and they do – they may see Obama’s effusive rhetoric as evidence of an untested president’s exploitable naivete.
This editorial will appear in Wednesday's print edition.
Boeing, in announcing its purchase of a South Carolina fuselage assembly plant, is making it abundantly clear to Washington state that it’s got options.
This isn’t the first time. The company that picked up and moved its Seattle headquarters to Chicago in 2001 is a different beast than the airplane-maker that built the great B-17s and B-29s of World War II and pioneered the revolutionary 707, 737 and 747 jetliners.
Today the aerospace giant makes decisions on the basis of economics, not history. Boeing can ill afford to let sentimental attachment to the Puget Sound region hold sway over business decisions.
It also can’t afford to ignore obvious customer frustration over repeated delays for the new 787 Dreamliner.
The blogosphere is abuzz over a column by McClatchy Newspapers military writer Joe Galloway which all but eviscerates the late Robert McNamara, defense secretary during much of the Vietnam War.
The column, headlined "Reading an obit with great pleasure," starts off: "Well, the aptly named Robert Strange McNamara has finally shuffled off to join LBJ and Dick Nixon in the 7th level of Hell." After that, Galloway gets really snarky.
Read that column, and another titled "Shed no tears for Robert McNamara," on the McClatchy Newspapers Web site here.
I really get the feeling Galloway didn't like the guy.
