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- For Israel, an Epithet Undeserved - March 2, 2010
- Toward the end of last year, Jimmy Carter apologized for some of his very harsh statements about Israel. In an "open letter to the Jewish community" -- and with a...
- Iran and the Crazy Factor - February 23, 2010
- A question relating to Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program: Is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad crazy like Adolf Hitler, or is he crazy like, of all people,...
- Baader-Meinhof Gang, Fading Into Oblivion - January 12, 2010
- To the columnist's obligation to provide a 10-best list of 2009 films, I punt by offering just one. It is "The Baader Meinhof Complex," which Anthony Lane, the film...
- Leave Afghanistan to the Drones - November 10, 2009
- Between World War I and World War II, Britain fought all across the Islamic world, battling insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, to name just two, and usually losing....
- Give McChrystal Only What He Needs - October 27, 2009
- Years ago, I bought an old Time magazine -- the issue with the 1965 Man of the Year on the cover. I stuffed it into an old picture frame and kept it around to remind me...
- Obama Failing to Lead on Afghanistan - October 6, 2009
- Barack Obama's trip to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago for the Olympics would have been a dumb move whatever the outcome. But as it turned out (an airy dismissal would not...
- President Cool Plays It Right on Iran - June 23, 2009
- The foreign policy sins of the United States fall into two categories: commission and omission. The commission ones include the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and a one-time...
- South Asia's Nuclear Minefield - May 19, 2009
- In 1947, a British lawyer with no experience in the region arrived in India to draw lines on a map. Within several weeks, Cyril Radcliffe had severed the future Pakistan...
- Hamas' Bloody Hands - April 21, 2009
- Some residents of Gaza were taken from their homes and shot in the legs or feet. Some were brutally beaten and some were simply murdered, sometimes after hideous...
- Taliban and the Obama Doctrine - March 10, 2009
- The 19th century ended, as we all know, not in 1900 but 14 years later, when Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand -- and the world promptly went mad. In...
- Whose Israel Shall it Be? - February 24, 2009
- The day after the United Nations created the state of Israel, the country's first president, Chaim Weizmann, found time to work on his memoir, "Trial and Error." In it,...
- Obama's World of Burdens - Washington Post - January 20, 2009
- Use a Predator to Take Out Mugabe - Washington Post - December 9, 2008
- Can We Talk Earnestly About Georgia? - August 19, 2008
- Last year, Brent Scowcroft described to the Council on Foreign Relations his "most difficult judgment call" as George H.W. Bush's national security adviser. It entailed...
- America's Image the Worst Iraq Casualty - Washington Post - March 25, 2008
- Rocketing Toward War - Washington Post - February 19, 2008