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- Ramallah's Road Map to Statehood - November 18, 2009
- RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Looking at this city, you can imagine what a Palestinian state could someday be like if folks got serious: The streets are clean, there's new...
- The Fed in the Crosshairs - November 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Among the cherished prerogatives of members of Congress is the right to second-guess. That ritual is now playing itself out with a vengeance as the solons...
- A Salute to Our Military - November 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings, some commentaries have examined the damage to the U.S. Army from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few have...
- Still a Bridge Too Far - November 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The Iranians have a word they use to describe a political impasse. They speak of it as a bombast, which means a dead-end street, or a knot that can't be...
- The Karzai Calculus - November 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- With the "re-election" of President Hamid Karzai, if that's the right word for a process that featured fraudulent balloting and a canceled runoff, the...
- The Real Afghan Strategy - October 31, 2009
- BARAKI BARAK, Afghanistan -- Hikmatullah, a tall Pashtun farmer dressed in turban and white cloak, looks slightly bewildered as a U.S. Army officer offers him tea and...
- On the War's Frontlines - October 29, 2009
- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Here's what you would see if you traveled this week to Kandahar and Helmand provinces, the two big battlegrounds of the Afghanistan War: This is...
- A Resilient Baghdad on a Day of Horror - October 25, 2009
- BAGHDAD -- From the air Sunday morning, this looked like a city restored. You could see paddle boats skimming the pond at Zahwra Park, and go-karts and waterslides. And...
- In Waziristan, A History of Resistance - October 24, 2009
- ISLAMABAD -- Talking with a Pakistani intelligence officer here last week about the army's invasion of South Waziristan, a visitor noted that troops have been marching...
- Pakistan Fights Back - October 21, 2009
- RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- Until a few months ago, Pakistani officials often used the term "miscreants" when they described the Taliban fighters operating from the western...
- A Hitch in Iran's Nuclear Plans? - October 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Since you're probably not a regular reader of the trade publication Nucleonics Week, let me summarize an article that appeared in its Oct. 8 issue: It...
- Careful to a Fault on Afghanistan - October 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Afghanistan could be the most important decision of Barack Obama's presidency. Maybe that's why he is, in effect, making it twice. What's odd about the...
- Hubris, and a Hiccup - October 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's a classic example of the law of unintended consequences: Congress triples its assistance to Pakistan as part of a deepening strategic relationship....
- Afghanistan Tests the Obama 'Doctrine' - October 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Is there an "Obama Doctrine" lurking among the zigs and zags of his foreign policy over these first nine months? I think there is, in the president's...
- Pakistan's Model For Fighting Terrorism - October 3, 2009
- SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan -- A visit to this battlefield of Pakistan's war against the Taliban left one indelible image -- of a teenage boy's beaming smile of relief -- that...
- One Tough Adversary - September 30, 2009
- WANA, Pakistan -- The zigzag trip to this garrison town deep in the tribal area of South Waziristan tells a story that's more than a century old: The fierce Mehsud tribe...
- In Pakistan, A Question of Trust - September 28, 2009
- ISLAMABAD -- The headquarters of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence directorate is a black-ribbed stucco building in the Aabpara neighborhood of the...
- A Lesson From Hedge Funds - September 24, 2009
- LONDON -- When you think about future financial stability, ask yourself this contrarian question: Why is it that the nefarious hedge funds, supposedly the bad boys of...
- Iran's Nuclear Facility Accelerates Crisis - Washington Post - September 24, 2009
- How to Buy Afghanistan - September 23, 2009
- LONDON -- When it comes to Afghanistan, the British have a special perspective: Every mistake the United States has made recently, they made 150 years ago. So it's worth...
- A Nation or a Cause? - September 19, 2009
- LONDON -- The central question about Iran, as Henry Kissinger has observed, is whether it wants to be a nation or a cause. In the case of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,...
- A 'Grand Bargain' For the CIA? - September 16, 2009
- PARIS -- The gauzy romance and the gritty political reality of the spy business came into focus in two encounters in Europe this week. If the two can be linked, maybe...
- Security From Iraq's Neighbors - September 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- How can America help a fragile Iraq as U.S. troops and influence there decline? The Obama administration should revisit one of the good ideas proposed by...
- Iraq's Security Depends on Its Neighbors - Washington Post - September 12, 2009
- Understanding Iran's Power Struggles - September 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The political situation inside Iran remains murky, to put it mildly, in the aftermath of last June's turbulent election. But some clues can be found in the...
- Health Reform Worth Embracing - September 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When President Obama visited the Cleveland Clinic in July, he lauded its innovative approach to low-cost, high-quality health care: "They've set up a...
- The Afghanistan Conundrum - September 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's the nature of Afghanistan that nothing there ever works out quite the way outsiders expect, and that certainly was the case with last month's...
- At CIA, Back to Spying - August 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "Let's get on with it." That was a signature line of the late CIA director, Richard Helms, the savviest spymaster this country has produced. And it's the...
- Behind the Carnage in Baghdad - August 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As security deteriorates in Baghdad, there's a new cause for worry: The head of the U.S.-trained Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) has quit in a...
- Leadership 101 for Barack Obama - Washington Post - August 22, 2009
- Needed -- Foreign Policy Muscle - August 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's crunch time for the Obama administration on two of its toughest foreign-policy challenges -- the Arab-Israeli peace process and the war in...
- Call For a Doctor, Mr. President - August 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Reading the transcripts of President Obama's "town hall meetings" this month on heath care reform is painful. He's preaching the right gospel, but the...
- 'Creative Opportunism' on Iran - August 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Thinking about Iran policy these days can make you dizzy, so let's try a simple analogy: The neighborhood troublemaker has driven his car off the road and...
- Play the Waiting Game with Iran - Washington Post - August 1, 2009
- Dial Back the Paranoia Meter - July 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It was an unsettling image: Arrayed in front of the neighborhood barbershop last week were four burly men with the characteristic earpieces and bulky suits...
- Life in the Rehab Economy - July 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The stock market's surge last week could almost make you think that the go-go years are coming back. But listening to Obama administration officials and...
- Behind the CIA's Assassination Program - July 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When the CIA's alleged assassination program surfaced this month, the first reports focused on what hadn't been done: Congress hadn't been briefed,...
- Obama's Diplomatic Report Card - July 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Six months on, how is Barack Obama doing in foreign policy? Some leading experts give the new president high marks for improving America's battered image...
- CIA As Political Football - July 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As other countries watch the United States lacerate its intelligence service -- for activities already investigated or never undertaken -- perhaps they...
- Russia Still a Declining Power - Washington Post - July 11, 2009