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- 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...
- Only Islamic Radicals Can End War with the West - February 1, 2009
- That is a task that falls to Muslims themselves. At its core, this struggle is over the future of Islam. Obama must work hard to make sure that his well-intentioned...
- Reaching Out to Muslims - Washington Post - January 31, 2009
- Will Obama Overshadow World Leaders? - January 25, 2009
- Obama does not have that particular need or temperament. His earliest words and deeds make clear that foreign leaders will be dealing with a revitalized U.S....
- Obama on The World Stage - Washington Post - January 24, 2009
- The world's leadership club has welcomed President Barack Obama with a mixture of hope and wariness. It's been a while since members of this club have had to deal with...
- Cairo's Bargain - January 16, 2009
- But that fragile peace has endured and sunk roots, even if it has not blossomed into a true partnership between Egyptians and Israelis. Its survival into the 21st...
- Sarkozy Growing in Global Influence - January 11, 2009
- Interesting is not the only I-word that his peers in the world leadership club apply to Sarkozy, who came to power in May 2007 promising a "rupture" with France's...
- Countering Iran in Gaza and Beyond - January 4, 2009
- Bush must respond at that strategic level -- within his time-limited means. It is pointless to expect him suddenly to exert pressure on Israel for lasting...
- Youth Begin to Take Notice of Generation Xcess - December 21, 2008
- That problem is the awakening of the world's youth to the raw deal their parents and grandparents -- my generation, in toto -- are handing them, and the growing...
- Nuclear Crossroads - December 14, 2008
- As president-elect, Obama concentrates on the immediate economic challenges overwhelming Washington. For an example of Obama's skillful alternation of verbal...
- Obama's 77-Day Sprint - December 7, 2008
- The Eisenhower assessment -- and sensible prescriptions for stopgaps to overcome the time-specific vulnerabilities between Election Day and Jan. 20 -- can be found...
- Zardari Hurdles Over Low Expectations - November 30, 2008
- Zardari is the corruption-tainted amateur politician who became president in the wake of the assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, last year. He seemed...
- Obama's Man in Madrid - November 23, 2008
- The two have much in common -- and the president-elect had cleverly gone through each point of similarity in a warm telephone call to Zapatero six days earlier. If...
- Overtures Best Left To Obama - November 19, 2008
- Rice's initiatives make sense -- in themselves, and as far as they go. But unfortunately they arrive as too little, too late. She perseveres in trying to get Bush...
- What We're Ignoring in the Congo - November 16, 2008
- In three years, "never again" has become "sorry about that." Humanitarian intervention -- proudly proclaimed as a universal mission by Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and...
- Obama Expertly Working the Backchannels - November 9, 2008
- The new ways in which the White House will address the world after Jan. 20 have been forecast by the campaign themes developed for two years by Barack Obama. But...
- The Politics of Race are Coming to an End - November 2, 2008
- Barack Obama has succeeded brilliantly in casting his candidacy -- indeed, his whole life -- as post-racial. Even before the votes are cast, he has written a...
- Meeting for the Financial Future - October 26, 2008
- That will be true whether it is Obama or McCain who takes office on Jan. 20. The victor will necessarily share global leadership as no American president has since...
- Coco's Lessons - October 19, 2008
- This adaptability contributes to what Westie owner manuals describe as the breed's mission in life: to remind you constantly of your good fortune in owning a...
- Russia Delights in Watching U.S. Fall - October 12, 2008
- Dump America Inc. was the implicit geopolitical stock tip that Medvedev gave his listeners at the World Policy Conference, a three-day leadership brainstorming...
- McCain Sinking Himself - October 4, 2008
- But these debates have become important conveyor belts of indelible attitude and character, of trend-sensing and cultural zeitgeist, sliced into digestible...
- A World of Risk Beyond Wall Street - September 28, 2008
- Obama did explicitly promise to provide leadership "not just when there is a crisis." I think he won the debate, on points rather than by knockout, by showing a much...
- Bush 's Triple-Play Strategy - September 21, 2008
- The indisputable point is this: The political and military campaigns being waged simultaneously in and by the U.S. intersect in the ungoverned badlands of the greater...
- Unify the Baltic States to Counter Russia - September 14, 2008
- The emerging change in power relationships does not rise to the level so far of a new Cold War. Look at President Dmitry Medvedev's recent tut-tuting comments about...
- The Electoral Sitcom - September 7, 2008
- That willingness to face up to self-inflicted wounds and to try to heal them sets Americans apart in the eyes of foreign friends, who often describe us as well-meaning...
- Obama Can't Out-hawk McCain on Georgia - August 31, 2008
- The question: Should the United States re-arm Georgia, and if so, at what level? That is, does Washington simply replace the U.S. weapons that Russian forces...
- Rice's "Do No Harm" Legacy - August 24, 2008
- Finally, Rice has to shoulder the burden of being secretary of state for a president whose attention to world affairs is episodic at best and who does not believe in...
- American Arrogance Provoked Putin - August 17, 2008
- Times change, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointed out when asserting that "this is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia," even if there are eerie...
- Closing the Deal with Iraq - August 9, 2008
- Something surprising is happening to the once rigid, self-centered George W. Bush presidency. The administration is adjusting policy to reflect the changing political...
- Calling China's Human Rights Bluff - August 3, 2008
- They should instead make their visits openly political occasions. They should focus in public on China's human rights record and its promises to permit greater...
- Obamamania Not a Worldwide Phenomenon - July 27, 2008
- The world is very much with Americans in this thoroughly unorthodox year. Foreign leaders traditionally complain that they cannot vote in our presidential elections even...
- India the Key to U.S.-Pakistan Relationship - July 20, 2008
- That same approach to Pakistan under Pervez Musharraf failed the Bush presidency, and it will fail new leaders in Washington and Islamabad as well. What is needed is a...
- Jitters Over Iran - July 13, 2008
- So you might want to consider battening down the hatches and getting the bomb shelters ready, just in case. The hydraulics of war and peace in the Middle East dictate...
- Israel Smiles, Iran Growls - Washington Post - July 13, 2008
- Bloc-Buster Idea: Make It The G-3 - July 6, 2008
- -- The world that these leaders and their predecessors have promised for the past three decades is not today's world energy and food-price shocks, global financial...
- Russia in a New World Order - Washington Post - June 29, 2008
- France's Whirlwind of Change - Washington Post - June 18, 2008
- The Problem is Obama, Not Johnson - Washington Post - June 12, 2008
- New Allies In Asia? - Washington Post - May 11, 2008