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- Election Puts Iraqis in Charge of Their Future - March 13, 2010
- Iraq is the country that refuses to die: Saddam Hussein tried to break his people by torture and poison gas, but he failed. America arrogantly mismanaged the first years...
- China's Bubble Trouble - March 11, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- The bubbly enthusiasm that many analysts express about the Chinese economy reminds me of the old-time variety show host Lawrence Welk, who banished worries...
- Obama Rebuilding Trust with Pakistan - March 4, 2010
- One of the problems with the U.S.-Pakistan relationship over the decades has been that the two sides tend to fall in and out of love like a tempestuous couple, rather...
- Iran's Get Out the Vote Campaign... in Iraq - February 25, 2010
- Iran is conducting what U.S. officials say is a broad covert-action campaign to influence Iraq's elections next month, pumping money and other assistance to its allies....
- On Iran, All of the Above - February 14, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- What did the world see as Iran celebrated the 31st anniversary of its Islamic revolution on Thursday? A hollowed-out regime that is better at repressing...
- Europe Needs a Tea Party - February 11, 2010
- At the risk of taking contrarianism to extremes, let me offer this suggestion: The global economy needs a "Tea Party" movement in Europe to lobby for fiscal conservatism...
- Nudging India Into the Game - February 7, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- The key to Kabul lies in Islamabad, Adm. Mike Mullen likes to say, meaning that success in Afghanistan will be impossible without Pakistan's help. But the...
- U.S. Military Seeks Proxy Partners - January 28, 2010
- Gen. Stanley McChrystal this week expressed a truth that military commanders know better than anyone: "A political solution to all conflicts is the inevitable outcome,"...
- Playing Beat the Clock in Afghanistan - December 20, 2009
- MATA KHAN, Afghanistan -- Adm. Mike Mullen, the personification of American military power, is walking the streets of this dusty village in Paktika province when the...
- U.S. and Pakistan Need a Big Idea - December 17, 2009
- ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN The United States and Pakistan, always prone to bickering, need a big idea to unite and sustain them through the testing battle in Afghanistan. So...
- The Right Words for a War President - December 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- For the past week, I have been mulling over two intriguing things President Obama said the day he announced his Afghanistan policy -- one about the...
- Who Wins in Iran's Nuclear Game? - December 5, 2009
- How will the confrontation over Iran's nuclear program evolve during the next year? If a simulation game played at Harvard last week is any guide, the situation won't...
- Surge, Then Leave Afghanistan - December 2, 2009
- President Obama has been deliberating for months over his Afghanistan strategy. But when it came time to explain that decision Tuesday, he was cool and analytical -- and...
- Afghan Tribes to the Rescue - November 21, 2009
- While military officers wait for President Obama to conclude his agonizingly slow review of Afghanistan policy, they've been reading a paper by an Army Special Forces...
- How to Build a Palestinian State - November 19, 2009
- Looking at this city, you can imagine what a Palestinian state could someday be like if folks got serious: The streets are clean, there's construction in every direction...
- Karzai Regime Must Reform, or Die - November 4, 2009
- With the "reelection" of President Hamid Karzai, if that's the right word for a process that featured fraudulent balloting and a canceled runoff, the United States now...
- Soft and Hard Power Needed in Afghanistan - November 1, 2009
- BARAKI BARAK, Afghanistan -- Hikmatullah, a tall Pashtun farmer dressed in turban and white cloak, looks slightly bewildered as a U.S. Army officer offers him tea and...
- Afghanistan Needs More Troops - October 30, 2009
- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Here's what you would see if you traveled this week to Kandahar and Helmand provinces, the two big battlegrounds of the Afghanistan War: This is...
- A Resilient Baghdad on a Day of Horror - October 26, 2009
- BAGHDAD -- From the air Sunday morning, this looked like a city restored. You could see paddle boats skimming the pond at Zahwra Park, and go-karts and waterslides. And...
- History's Road to Waziristan - October 25, 2009
- ISLAMABAD -- Talking with a Pakistani intelligence officer here last week about the army's invasion of South Waziristan, a visitor noted that troops have been marching...
- Pakistan Gets Serious - October 22, 2009
- Until a few months ago, Pakistani officials often used the term "miscreants" when they described the Taliban fighters operating from the western tribal areas. This...
- Obama's Difficult Afghanistan Decision - October 15, 2009
- Afghanistan could be the most important decision of Barack Obama's presidency. Maybe that's why he is, in effect, making it twice. What's odd about the administration's...
- Afghanistan a Test for the Obama Doctrine - October 8, 2009
- Is there an "Obama Doctrine" lurking among the zigs and zags of the president's foreign policy over these first nine months? I think there is, in his repeated invocation...
- Pakistan's Model for Fighting Terrorism - October 4, 2009
- SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan -- A visit to this battlefield of Pakistan's war against the Taliban left one indelible image -- of a teenage boy's beaming smile of relief -- that...
- Pakistan Readies Assault on Waziristan - October 1, 2009
- WANA, Pakistan -- The zigzag trip to this garrison town deep in the tribal area of South Waziristan tells a story that's more than a century old: The fierce Mehsud tribe...
- The View from Pakistan's Spies - September 29, 2009
- The headquarters of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence directorate is a black-ribbed stucco building in the Aabpara neighborhood of the capital. Its...
- Seeing Afghanistan Through British Eyes - September 24, 2009
- When it comes to Afghanistan, the British have a special perspective: Every mistake the United States has made recently, they made 150 years ago. So it's worth listening...
- What if Ahmadinejad Refuses to Talk? - September 20, 2009
- LONDON -- The central question about Iran, as Henry Kissinger has observed, is whether it wants to be a nation or a cause. In the case of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,...
- Iraq's Security Depends on Its Neighbors - September 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- How can America help a fragile Iraq as U.S. troops and influence there decline? The Obama administration should revisit one of the good ideas proposed by...
- Iran's Spies Stage a Takeover - September 10, 2009
- The political situation in Iran remains murky, to put it mildly, in the aftermath of June's turbulent election. But some clues can be found in the recent purge of the...
- Finding a Middle Way for Afghanistan - September 2, 2009
- It's the nature of Afghanistan that nothing there ever works out quite the way outsiders expect, and that certainly was the case with last month's presidential election....
- Behind the Carnage in Baghdad - August 25, 2009
- As security deteriorates in Baghdad, there's a new cause for worry: The head of the U.S.-trained Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) has quit in a long-running...
- Leadership 101 for Barack Obama - August 23, 2009
- It's crunch time for the Obama administration on two of its toughest foreign policy challenges -- the Arab-Israeli peace process and the war in Afghanistan....
- Play the Waiting Game with Iran - August 2, 2009
- Thinking about Iran policy these days can make you dizzy, so let's try a simple analogy: The neighborhood troublemaker has driven his car off the road and is stuck in a...
- Obama's Foreign Policy Report Card - July 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Six months on, how is Barack Obama doing in foreign policy? Some leading experts give the new president high marks for improving America's battered image...
- Russia Is 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...
- U.S.-Russia 'Reset' Won't Do Much - July 6, 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 for his trip to Russia next week, he should bring along a copy of "The Brothers Karamazov." For the modern Russia of Vladimir Putin is...
- 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...