President Obamas Failed Africa Policy
As my toddler son fidgets with his lifejacket in my lap, I get this feeling of unease. I am sitting ...
Reports of Assad’s (Pending) Demise May be Greatly Exaggerated
The end is near in Syria – that is the optimistic headline emerging from Western news sources like the Guardian and Washington Post, ...
Tsar of Tsars
Remarkable that over a half century after the fall of Nazism and the worst of Soviet oppression and Maoism, we ...
Can A ‘Freeze’ Work in Syria?
What’s the difference between a “freeze” and a “ceasefire”? Some might say it’s just semantics, but UN negotiators in Syria ...
Fool Me Twice, Shame on Minsk
What is our red line in Ukraine? I can’t seem to find any mention of one in any of the ...
Fool Me Twice, Shame on Minsk
What is our red line in Ukraine? I can’t seem to find any mention of one in any of the ...
Why Terrorists Do Not Need Territory
Micah Zenko and Amelia Mae Wolf of the Council on Foreign Relations have a smart piece in Foreign Policy. They dispel the conventional ...
The Case for Coalitions of the Unwilling
For months, it was believed that the patchwork of 40-plus countries recruited in the fight against ISIS looked weak and ...
The Case for Arming Rebels
It was reported that a CIA commission found that arming rebels in civil wars is ineffective. That might not strike many who remember ...
On Food, Wine, and War
When I was a reporter in post-conflict zones like Georgia, Sri Lanka, and Lebanon, I used to wonder: Does good ...