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'Obama Just Can't Say It' 26 Aug 2013 | 05:32 pm
Thomas Friedman's piece in the Sunday New York Times was vintage Friedman: chatty, moderately insightful, and filled with quotations from his pal (and co-author) Michael Mandelbaum. The basic theme of...
Are U.S. Interests REALLY at Stake in Egypt, Syria, etc.? 22 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
I was participating in an exchange on an email listserv the other day, and one of the participants -- Brendan Green, a visiting professor at the LBJ School at the University of Texas -- made an intrig...
Which Works Best: Force or Diplomacy? 21 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
What are the "greatest hits" of U.S. foreign policy since World War II? I mean: what would you regard as the most important "success stories" in America's handling of world affairs? Off the top of my ...
A Demented Detention At Heathrow Airport 19 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
What the heck were British officials thinking when they detained David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, at Heathrow Airport? As you can read about here, they kept him in cu...
Does Obama Lack 'Ambition' to Shape the World? 16 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
This week, the Stimson Center's Michael Krepon posted a sharp critique of Barack Obama's foreign policy, accusing his administration of "lack of ambition." And that was before Obama's tepid response t...
No Surprises in Egypt 15 Aug 2013 | 03:57 pm
What's happening throughout the Middle East isn't really surprising. Mideast experts had long been aware of the strains that these societies are under: stagnant economies, widespread corruption, massi...
America's Paranoid 'Stop and Frisk' on a Global Scale 13 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
Here in the United States, federal judge Shira Scheindlin has ruled that New York City's "stop and frisk" policy is in fact a form of racial profiling that violates basic constitutional rights. Accord...
What to Do with the NSA 12 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
Last week President Barack Obama proposed some modifications to the National Security Agency's program of domestic surveillance, but he missed a golden opportunity to build political support for the v...
Short Takes on Recent Events 7 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
If you're anything like me, you find it hard to keep up with the Niagara of events and information with which you're deluged every day. It used to be a challenge just to keep track of a half-dozen or ...
Congress to Iran: Drop Dead 5 Aug 2013 | 03:57 pm
About six weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the election of new Iranian President Hasan Rouhani. I said it was precisely the sort of opportunity that Barack Obama's administration had been looking ...
