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- Russia Still a Declining Power - Washington Post - July 12, 2009
- Russia: Still a Declining Power - July 12, 2009
- MOSCOW -- The un-modern face of Russia's economic "modernization" was evident in Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's response to the nation's credit crunch. Last month he...
- McNamara's Complicated Legacy - July 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I grew up in the shadow of Robert McNamara, almost literally. My father, Paul Ignatius, joined his team at the Pentagon in 1961 and remained with him...
- U.S.-Russia 'Reset' Won't Do Much - July 5, 2009
- MOSCOW -- The Obama administration has talked about a "reset" in Russian-American relations. But a Russian analyst shrugs his shoulders when he's asked about the term....
- Why Russians Love Putin - July 2, 2009
- MOSCOW -- As Barack Obama packs his suitcase for his trip to Russia next week, he should bring along a copy of "The Brothers Karamazov." For the modern Russia of...
- The Flaw in Obama's Israel Policy - June 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Israel's new foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, seemed perplexed during his visit to Washington this month: At a time when America and Israel agreed on...
- Bet on the Followers of Neda - June 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- On one side you have all the instruments of repression in Iran, gathering their forces for a crackdown. On the other you have unarmed protesters symbolized...
- This is For Real - June 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- What's happening on the streets of Tehran is a lesson in what makes history: It isn't guns or secret police, in the end, but the willingness of hundreds of...
- A Hunger For Change -- On Their Own - June 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The stormy Iranian elections are one more sign of how the world has been shaken up in the age of Barack Obama. The ruling mullahs are nervous about a...
- Time for the Inflation Hawks? - June 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- You don't have to be a "bond vigilante" to suspect that there's a collision ahead between fiscal and monetary policy: The Obama administration this week is...
- Duel of the Spy Chiefs - June 11, 2009
- There are spy wars, and there are turf wars. But watch out when the two are combined, as in the battle over who will appoint America's intelligence chiefs abroad --...
- On Defense, a Team, Not Rivals - June 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates doesn't give interviews all that often. So it was interesting that Gates reached out last week to talk about Gen. Jim Jones,...
- Long Odds on Settlements - June 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- By traveling to the heart of the Arab world Thursday, President Obama is putting himself at a crossroads: He is raising expectations that America can coax...
- Breakthrough with Syria - June 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The long-stalled U.S. diplomatic engagement with Syria is moving forward -- thanks to an unusual bit of mediation by Sen. John Kerry. A mini-breakthrough...
- Change in the Air in Iran - San Diego Union-Tribune - May 31, 2009
- Reading the Tea Leaves from Tehran - May 31, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As Iran heads toward its presidential election on June 12, there are signs that Iranian voters are embracing their own version of "Change we can believe...
- A Quiet Tiger at the Fed - May 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sometime this summer, President Obama will have to start thinking about one of the big decisions of his presidency -- whether to reappoint Ben Bernanke as...
- On Iran, No Magic Bullet - May 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When U.S. and Israeli officials say that "all options are on the table" for stopping Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, that's usually taken to mean aerial...
- Obama Upping the Ante on Israel - Washington Post - May 20, 2009
- Upping the Ante on Israel - May 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Binyamin Netanyahu's friends liken him to a good poker player. They explain, for example, that before the Israeli prime minister plays the card marked...
- Government Money Is a Toxic Asset - May 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Remember those "toxic assets" that were clogging the financial system a few months ago? Well, despite all the billions in government bailout programs,...
- Speaker vs. Spies - May 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It has been the nightmare scenario ever since the modern system of congressional oversight of intelligence was created in the late 1970s: When a scandal...
- Gen. Petraeus' Toughest Fight Yet - Washington Post - May 13, 2009
- Petraeus' Tougher Fight - May 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's a small irony of history that Gen. David Petraeus, attacked by the left for his role in revitalizing the Bush administration's effort in Iraq, is now...
- Information In Your Future - May 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- People in the news business have the collective sense these days that we are crossing the River Styx toward the land of the dead. Business guru Warren...
- Ultimate Generational Bummer - May 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- People have accused the baby boomers of being whiners almost since we were born. But just wait until we get to retirement age and discover that we don't...
- Moment of Truth in Pakistan - May 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama convened a crisis meeting at the White House last Monday to hear a report from Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,...
- Creating a 21st Century NSC - April 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- One of the puzzles of the Obama administration's first few months was how the National Security Council would work under Gen. James Jones. He had the...
- The Afghan Challenge - April 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Recently The New York Times carried vivid war reporting from Afghanistan. C.J. Chivers described the "bloody standoff" in the Korengal Valley between...
- How Obama's Decision Hurt the CIA - April 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- At the Central Intelligence Agency, it's known as "slow rolling." That's what agency officers sometimes do on politically sensitive assignments. They go...
- Now Comes the Hard Part - April 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When President Obama finished announcing his Afghanistan-Pakistan policy on March 27, he turned to the advisers gathered behind him and said: "OK, now...
- Pakistan Dodges A Bullet - April 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- A month ago, Pakistan came close to a political breakdown that could have triggered a military coup. How that crisis developed -- and how it was ultimately...
- How Pakistan Almost Blew Up - San Diego Union-Tribune - April 16, 2009
- A Short Fuse in Pakistan - April 10, 2009
- A hint of Pakistan's troubles came soon after Holbrooke and Mullen arrived here Monday night. Anne Patterson, the highly regarded U.S. ambassador, had assembled...
- Listening in Kabul - April 7, 2009
- So it went over two days here, as the American officials took the Obama administration's new Afghanistan policy on the road to Kabul. The centerpiece of the plan,...
- Raising the Middle East Curtain - April 5, 2009
- If you're looking for a historical analogy for this scale of diplomacy, think of the Congress of Vienna of 1815. That gathering produced a new security architecture...
- Rolling Out Obamanomics - April 2, 2009
- "Things have been out of balance for the last decade," Axelrod said. "We want to restore that sense of balance, that we're all in this together. We're not doing this...
- Why Cheney Was Wrong - March 29, 2009
- A more useful response would have been to say that America isn't less safe because Obama hasn't changed anti-terrorism policies as much as Cheney's broadside...
- A Tax Break Fuels Middle East Friction - March 26, 2009
- But critics of Israeli settlements question why American taxpayers are supporting indirectly, through the exempt contributions, a process that the government...
- Upbeat Down Under - March 22, 2009
- Rudd's second encouraging sign, linked to the first, is the growing role of China in maintaining global economic stability. Chinese leaders will attend the summit...