Smart only if it succeeds

7 years ago

I've hesitated to write about Venezuela, a country I don't know, but perhaps a few words based on experience elsewhere…

Not the deep state

7 years ago

Yesterday's testimony in Congress by America's intelligence elite was dramatic: it contradicted President Trump's ill-founded opinions on Iran, ISIS, North…

Hard to know how to please the US

7 years ago

The Middle East Policy Council hosted a discussion January 25 assessing Trump Administration mid- term policy on the Middle East,…

Blithering

7 years ago

This is a president of the United States in near total self-delusion. Ninety percent of what he says and implies…

The foreign policy process is broken

7 years ago

The Center for Strategic and International studies ( CSIS) held a discussion January 23 focused on effects of the US…

Buffer zone in northern Syria

7 years ago

The Foundation of Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) hosted a discussion on January 18, about the US withdrawal from…

Riyadh impressions

7 years ago

I spent four days in Saudi Arabia last week, which is wholly insufficient to do anything but scratch the surface.…

Take the money, ask no questions

7 years ago

The Wilson Center held a discussion this week on “Democratic and International Impacts of Kleptocracy,” with Edward Melon, Kennan Institute…

The innocent don’t react this way

7 years ago

I'm glad the FBI opened a counter-intelligence investigation of President Trump. He had appealed publicly for Russian hacking of American…

Pompeo pontificates

7 years ago

Secretary of State Pompeo took the occasion of his speech in Cairo today to assert what few in the Middle…