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- Downside of an Extended Hand - November 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's extended hand was whacked across the knuckles by the leaders of Iran, Syria and assorted other thuggeries last week. But the Obama...
- Chirac on the Rocks - November 1, 2009
- Old age is a shipwreck. -- Charles de Gaulle WASHINGTON -- Revolutions notoriously eat their children. But France's political system reserves its sharpest cruelties for...
- Time for a Stronger NAFTA - October 25, 2009
- OTTAWA -- Candidate Barack Obama made the North American Free Trade Agreement an early target. He promised union leaders to force a renegotiation of NAFTA on his terms....
- The Obama Squeeze on Afghanistan - October 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Is President Obama dithering on Afghanistan, as critics claim? Or do loyalists praising his deliberate pace have it right? Both camps rush past the...
- Honoring Obama For Events Yet to Come - October 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Gobsmacked by President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize? You have come to the right place. Chalk it up to the national character of my ancestral...
- Obama's Grand Opportunity - October 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Three American presidents have set the stage for a grand bargain that could align the interests of the world's leading powers in Europe and the Middle...
- Obama's Nuclear Treadmill - September 27, 2009
- NEW YORK -- President Obama's dream of a world without nuclear weapons seems more like a nightmare to Russia and other nations that also possess doomsday arms. Obama is...
- Yin ang Yang in the Kremlin - September 20, 2009
- MOSCOW -- The world's economic crisis does not seem to have been unkind to you, Vladimir Putin notes as we sit down to a lunch that begins with calf's tail in aspic....
- Obama's Afghan Hopes Meet Reality - September 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The aftermath of Afghanistan's elections has been uglier and more consequential than the campaign that preceded the voting. It has become clear that...
- Japan's Change, and Challenges - September 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Japan's voters have thrust power on an incoherent coalition of hungry politicians distinguished only by their willingness to promise anything to anybody...
- A Libyan Lesson In Tehran - August 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Moammar Gaddafi leaned across the couch and surprised me with the question he posed, squinting as he searched my face for reaction: "Why do you drink...
- Is Obama Weak? - Washington Post - August 24, 2009
- Shortly after the Group of 20 summit concluded in London in April, Nicolas Sarkozy blurted out to a small group of advisers a question that weighed on him as he watched...
- Perception Becomes a Problem - August 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Shortly after the G-20 summit concluded in London in April, Nicolas Sarkozy blurted out to a small group of advisers a question that weighed on him as he...
- Ahead, For Once, in the Balkans - August 16, 2009
- KORCULA, Croatia -- The enterprising folk of this Adriatic island town now use the past to propel themselves into the future. As they do, they offer a glimpse of a...
- Clinton's Challenge to Iran - July 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I love writing about control freaks. They cannot resist responding in ways that prove my point. I once received a telephone tongue-lashing at dawn from a...
- Obama's Foreign Policy By Deadline - July 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama's surge in Afghanistan has a year to show that the increase in U.S. forces and aid can turn the tide there. It is not an open-ended...
- On Message, But Cracks Showing - July 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Surprised to see the news the other day that the Obama administration is sending an ambassador back to Syria? So was Hillary Clinton's State Department....
- A Brightness Cloaked in Hubris - July 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The Robert S. McNamara who helped lead the United States into defeat and shame in Vietnam would never have anticipated or trusted what I am about to...
- Preparing for a Sea Change - July 5, 2009
- VENICE -- Europe will be wrangled for the next six months by a lanky no-nonsense Swede named Carl Bildt. His country chairs this semester's cascade of European Union...
- In Middle East, Hawks Still Count - June 28, 2009
- PARIS -- "President" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's brutal clampdown on his opponents is a tragedy for Iranians. But the shredding of Iran's pretensions of being a stable,...
- Obama Caught by Surprise on Iran - June 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The most serious challenge that Iran's Islamic rulers have faced in their 30 years in power caught President Obama and many European leaders by surprise....
- Obama's Golden Opportunity - June 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- France's attitude toward U.S. policy on Middle East peace? "We totally agreed." How about Iran? "Totally aligned on this." Personal relations? "It is a...
- Desperation in Trying to Revive the U.S. Auto Industry - June 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Foreign lands define themselves to us through national symbols long before we learn their languages or customs. The bear reminds us to be careful of Russia...
- Time to Plant Mideast Seeds - May 31, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Memo to President Obama: Cling to one thought as you work on your greatly anticipated speech to the Muslim world in Cairo Thursday, Mr. President: There is...
- Challenge's From a New Century's Wars - May 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- George W. Bush's refusal to work with Congress and other nations to update national and international legal norms to fight al-Qaeda immediately after 9/11...
- Into the Thicket on Abuse - May 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama's effort to block the release of photographs of U.S. prisoner abuse is a mistake that can be corrected. The president acts with good...
- Mandela's Enduring Legacy - May 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- South Africa has selected a new president in its fourth democratic and peaceful national election since its liberation from apartheid. So much for the...
- White House Cyberspace Race - May 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama will not twit, I have been authoritatively informed. Or should that be tweet? Unsure about the correct verb form for sending Twitter...
- Israel, Iran -- And Obama's Dilemma - April 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama's national security aides are struggling to conclude a strategic review of U.S. policy toward Iran. It is certain to be comprehensive,...
- Eyes on the Ball, Mr. President - April 19, 2009
- MEXICO CITY -- And now a little heresy from your friendly foreign affairs columnist for President Obama: Stay focused on fixing the American economy. Avoid pleasant...
- The War Within Islam - April 12, 2009
- The video, apparently shot on a cell phone and given to a human rights activist, is not surprising in itself. The brutal subjugation of poor, uneducated women in rural...
- Now It's Obama's World - April 5, 2009
- First, though, an aside: Enough already with this embarrassing deportation case against Zeituni Onyango, who won a reprieve last week to stay in Boston until next...
- High Stakes at G-20 Summit - March 29, 2009
- Zhou Xiaochuan, China's central bank governor, got in his licks on the bank's Web site. He called for gradually "removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using...
- Behind the Afghan Strategy - March 22, 2009
- While the administration this week begins a well-publicized Afghan "rollout" -- D.C.-speak for a coordinated but segmented sales job of a new initiative to...
- Follow the Money - March 15, 2009
- His caution was a red flag for me because of a different question I have been putting to the random Obama Cabinet secretary or senior official I trip across during...
- Biden Takes a High-Wire Act to Brussels - March 8, 2009
- President Obama's confidence in Biden's versatility and talents is outranked only by that of, well, Biden in himself. This week the VP is helping shape the new...
- Shifting the Vision - March 1, 2009
- That is, the pivot Obama is making is much larger and more difficult than he has acknowledged. He seemingly made a down payment on a new Afghan strategy by...
- Obama Tries to Tame the Bear - February 22, 2009
- But Obama is launching his ambitious effort to lead the world with sweet reason as the foundations of the American economy seem to crumble. This increases the danger...
- Karzai Alone in Afghanistan - February 15, 2009
- Three things need to be said: (1) The analysis by Obama & Co. is accurate, and is shared by U.S. allies, particularly Britain, which has effectively given up on...
- The New, Improved Iraq - February 8, 2009
- But by the standards of the past -- and of the rough neighborhood in which Iraqis still live -- the two general elections that Iraq has held in four years stand as...