The Appeal of the Simplistic
When Ronald Reagan says "boys will be boys" and Donald Rumsfeld says "stuff happens," this is a whole political philosophy, a world view. Life really is just one damn thing after another.
When Ronald Reagan says "boys will be boys" and Donald Rumsfeld says "stuff happens," this is a whole political philosophy, a world view. Life really is just one damn thing after another.
And with Iran's documented exportation of terror into Latin America, Venezuela is Iran's ultimate forward base for that terror state's ambitions in Latin America.
While attending a Wilton Park (UK) conference on the future of public diplomacy, I was pleased to see this facet of foreign policy gaining traction....
America desperately needs a serious debate about when it should resort to war. In this regard the Germans have something to teach the U.S.
McCain, as usual, is all talk and no substance, and, in this case, he just doesn't seem to understand Iran at all, articulating a goal without any plan to get there.
In the "strategic interest" contest between Israel and Turkey, I suspect the United States will ultimately find more shared values with Turkey -- but only if we can break the dangerous hold Israel has over us.
Some strong reactions to the op-ed I wrote with George Clooney yesterday, published in USA Today, prompt me to follow up with some additional thought...
Yesterday the Washington, D.C.-based Center for a New American Security released a report "Contracting in Conflicts: The Path to Reform" on the use of...
In its new National Security Strategy Report (NSS), the Obama Administration has finally and fully embraced the importance of international institutio...
This week, the Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced his resignation, bringing to an end a short reign marred by public outrage over Okinawa.
Muslims are for Americans what the Russians were for Churchill: "A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." While the post-9/11 period brought...
It's clear that outside of the U.S., at least, shifting rhetorical blame to the slain activists won't be enough to tamp down outrage. So Defense Minister Ehud Barak is emerging as the likely target for a secondary source of blame.
Who can deny that our American world is in trouble? I was born in a country that thought it could rebuild anything. You're living in one lacking recuperative powers.
The fact that Israeli commandos were allowed to kill 10--and possibly as many as 20--pro-Palestinian activists aboard a small flotilla of boats, presu...
There is an anecdote circulating in Washington. It is about a meeting between the Colombian foreign minister Bermudez and the president of the Senate ...
During World War II, American productivity saved freedom for the world. But in the current era, Obama's economic policies will choke American innovation, and thus the power we project abroad.
Here is the Obama pattern: Choose a foreign leader to pressure. Threaten him with dire consequences.. When he refuses to submit and instead responds vigorously, back off quickly and overcompensate for failure.
In perhaps his most famous anti-imperialist essay, To the Person Sitting in Darkness Mark Twain critiques the self-evident truth of American imperial...
It is time for the U.S. Secretary of State to focus on crucial geopolitical issues and leave the discussions of China-U.S. business relations and monetary policy to someone else.
By Hadi Ghaemi and Aaron Rhodes The United States should support and urge other states to support a resolution in the United Nations Human Rights Co...
Unable to win wars or deliver diplomatic coups, Washington has lost the fundamental tools for global leadership. No place does this impotence manifest more vividly than the Middle East.