Washington Journal: Iraq and Afghanistan

9 years ago

Here is my appearance last Saturday on C-Span's Washington Journal discussing Iraq and Afghanistan:

The end of despair

9 years ago

Even as hope fades for peace talks, Syrian civil society gives me reason not to despair. Here is my preface to…

The Bytyqi brothers

9 years ago

Praveen Madhiraju, a pro bono advisor to the Btyqi family, writes:  "Don't worry, we'll resolve [the Bytyqi murders], and I…

Hope fades

9 years ago

The Syria peace talks, never substantial, are evaporating. The chief negotiator for the opposition has quit. The Russians and the…

Peace picks May 31-June 3

9 years ago

The Iran nuclear deal: Prelude to proliferation in the Middle East? | Tuesday, May 31st | 9:30-11:00 | Brookings |…

Thunder should roll for them all

9 years ago

I have added just a little to what I said last year on Memorial Day, which in the US is…

This is a great America, again

9 years ago

President Obama's remarks at Hiroshima yesterday are worth reading: Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from…

Remember Nagasaki

9 years ago

The Obama Administration has been desperately trying to counter any suggestion that the President's visit to Hiroshima today represented an…

Iraq’s plan for national reconciliation

10 years ago

As the Iraqi government launches its effort to recover Fallujah from the Islamic State (ISIS), it behooves us to ask…

One thing not to worry about

10 years ago

Yesterday's front-page New York Times piece on radicalization in Kosovo is every diplomat's nightmare: a well-written, prominent story with solid facts that…