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- Road Map for Afghanistan - March 18, 2009
- Now President Obama is in the final stages of his strategy review for Afghanistan and Pakistan. And Kilcullen, meanwhile, has just published a book that distills...
- Back to the Bubble? - March 14, 2009
- The basic imbalance was that the United States consumed far more than it produced. America financed this excess consumption by borrowing money from China and the...
- Despite Crisis, It's Still Politics as Usual - March 11, 2009
- We're still in the Neville Chamberlain phase when it comes to the economic crisis. The government is talking about sacrifice and solutions, but it hasn't yet made...
- Talk With Iran? Then Move Fast - March 7, 2009
- And what about rhetoric? Does Iran really imagine that it can engage the United States when its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said last week that Barack Obama...
- Let's Give FDR a Rest for Awhile - March 4, 2009
- Even AIG knows it's too big. "AIG's conglomerate structure is too complicated, unwieldy and opaque," said Edward Liddy, the company's new chief executive, who came in...
- We Saw the Crisis Coming - February 28, 2009
- Yet the authorities did too little in the early years, when they could have had some effect. And once the full force of the crisis hit, officials became caught in a...
- On Iran, an Apostle of Patience - February 25, 2009
- Hamilton cautioned against expecting any quick breakthroughs. He recommended a patient process of engagement that would be analogous to long-term diplomacy with the...
- A Three-Pronged Bet on 'AFPAK' - February 21, 2009
- Obama and his special adviser for the region, Richard Holbrooke, want to put their own stamp on policy. They inherited three reviews on Afghanistan: one by Lt. Gen....
- States at the Breaking Point - February 18, 2009
- Some numbers suggest the dimensions of the crisis. As states are preparing their fiscal 2010 budgets, they are looking at a revenue shortfall of $84.3 billion, according...
- Break Up the Banking Supermarkets - February 14, 2009
- In a waiting room at the Bank of England, you can find an old wooden bookcase crowned with a Latin motto: Scientia Est Pabulum Animi. "Knowledge is the food of the...
- Taxpayers Must Know Where the Money's Going - February 10, 2009
- Nobody likes rescuing the Wall Street rascals who made this mess. But financial experts paint a frightening picture of what could happen if normal credit doesn't...
- The Death of 'Rational Man' - February 7, 2009
- First, the standard analytical explanation: Roubini said he studied a chart in economist Robert J. Shiller's book "Irrational Exuberance." It showed that U.S....
- Diplomatic A-Team Needed to Take On Iran - February 4, 2009
- I know Brzezinski's and Scowcroft's views about dialogue with Iran because I spent many days with them last spring, moderating a discussion that yielded a book,...
- Down in the Dumps in Davos - January 31, 2009
- One reason for the tone of self-reflection this year is that U.S. officials, who can't seem to resist being pitchmen at such global gatherings, have mostly stayed away....
- The Pakistan Puzzle - January 28, 2009
- The challenge for Pakistan and its neighbors was dramatized by the Nov. 26 terrorist attack on the Indian metropolis of Mumbai. The assault on two luxury hotels, a...
- Scary Financial Movie - January 24, 2009
- I put the problem to Eugene Ludwig, a former comptroller of the currency and someone who has been warning about the seriousness of this crisis for nearly two years....
- Hard Truths at the Outset - January 20, 2009
- We all know the Pogo line about how "we have met the enemy, and he is us." Obama implicitly seemed to embrace it. We have been an immature country; we want things...
- Crocker's Heroic Service - January 17, 2009
- What made Crocker so unusual was his raw curiosity about the world. In the summer of 1970, when he was a student at Whitman College and determined not to spend the...
- Optimism Got the Better of Bush - January 14, 2009
- "Every day has been joyous," Bush said at one point. And, gee whiz, he really seemed to mean it. We have been living for eight years with the paradox of...
- Obama Keeps His Centrist Course - January 10, 2009
- Obama talked during the campaign about creating a new kind of post-partisan politics -- and dissolving the country's cultural and racial and ideological boundaries....
- Obama's Suprising but Good Pick for Langley - January 6, 2009
- "Leon is not going to preside over the demise of the CIA," explains one member of the Obama transition team. "The CIA needs to have someone who can represent them...
- For Obama, a Tough Page to Turn - January 3, 2009
- But as last week's fighting in Gaza shows, there is no such thing as a clean slate in the Middle East. The latest chain of events was dismally predictable:...
- Teach Our Children Shared Sacrifice - December 31, 2008
- What lessons, I wonder, will the great downturn of 2008 teach our children? Obviously, the answer depends on how bad things get. This is a global cataclysm that's...
- Lebanon Enjoys a Respite - December 27, 2008
- What's interesting about this yuletide calm is that the United States had almost nothing to do with it. Indeed, Lebanon seems to have entered its own version of the...
- Assad's Hopes for Obama - December 23, 2008
- -- Second, Assad said, "We would like to see this new administration sincerely involved in the peace process." He hopes Obama will back Syria's indirect...
- Election Dominoes in the Middle East - December 20, 2008
- Davutoglu spoke with me Wednesday in the Dolmabahce Palace on the shores of the Bosporus. The Ottoman setting was appropriate. For Davutoglu has overseen a shift in...
- What Afghans Want - December 17, 2008
- I first met the Mohseni brothers last April at the offices of their Moby Media Group in Kabul. We met again in Washington last week, and their comments convinced me that...
- Obama the Healer - December 13, 2008
- But here's a contrarian thought: Before Obama assumes the burdens of commander in chief, maybe he should dust off that copy of Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth"...
- A Spy CEO for Obama - December 10, 2008
- Rather than rush to answer "who" questions, Obama should spend some time thinking about what he wants from the intelligence agencies -- and whether the structure...
- Gen. Jones: Mideast Facilitator on Board - December 6, 2008
- The retired Marine general's approach, in the simplest terms, has been to build consensus by working on practical problems, from the bottom up. The Israelis and...
- The Next Mumbai - December 2, 2008
- The attack was meticulously planned: The raiders dispersed to several targets across the crowded city that had been studied by advance reconnaissance teams. They...
- Negotiations Won't Stop Iran - November 29, 2008
- President-elect Obama wants to open a serious dialogue with Tehran. That's a worthy aspiration, but there's little reason now to believe that it will succeed. Iranian...
- Life After Foggy Bottom - November 26, 2008
- Condoleezza Rice may be the most disciplined person in this town of workaholics. She has always been the perfect young woman, pleasing and impressing others. Her...
- A Bailout Stuck in Low Gear - November 22, 2008
- The sad fact is that the global economic situation is continuing to worsen, and the time has passed for bickering over who deserves government money and who...
- Traveling Obama Has Arrived - November 19, 2008
- "You know, they were all incredibly gracious," Obama said. "But I think all of them recognized that there's a certain loneliness to the job. That, you know, you'll...
- The Case Against Hillary - Washington Post - November 17, 2008
- Keep the War, Lose the Rhetoric - November 15, 2008
- Before the election, the radical Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradhawi even issued a fatwa supporting John McCain: "Personally, I would prefer for the Republican candidate,...
- G-20 Meeting Fraught with Complications - November 12, 2008
- The G-20 summit will mark several important, but potentially bumpy, transitions: the arrival of China as a co-manager of global prosperity; the new assertiveness of...
- On Foreign Policy, Change and Caution - November 5, 2008
- With Tuesday's victory, Obama and his advisers get to think about these global questions full time. Conversations over the past few days with several members of the...
- A Quiet Deal With Pakistan - November 3, 2008
- The successful hit on Habib attests to the growing cooperation -- in secret -- between the U.S. and Pakistan in the high-stakes war along the Afghanistan border,...