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12 years ago

I debate David Kanin, my colleague here at SAIS, today on the question the asterisk* question.  Here are the notes…

Time to clean under the rug

12 years ago

Milan Marinković writes again from Niš, about 100 miles from the Serbia/Macedonia border: For years Macedonia has seemed a forgotten…

Tune in to state TV

12 years ago

With all the brouhaha this morning about Arab Gulf states agreeing to pay the Free Syria Army, the real news…

Peace picks this week

12 years ago

The big event is Carnegie's with Islamists on Thursday, but the week somehow starts on Wednesday with an event of…

The road to Damascus runs through Moscow

12 years ago

The Syrian National Council (SNC) issued its Covenant this week, while the Friends of Syria today issued the Chairman's conclusions…

The joke is on us

12 years ago

The temptation to do an April Fool's post is great, but the barriers are greater:  how can anyone joke about…

Missive offense and defense

12 years ago

America's patriots were hard at work this week, not attacking the nation's enemies but each other.  First the Romney brigade…

Maliki wins another bet

12 years ago

Nouri al Maliki, the prime minister orginally chosen in 2006 because he and his Dawa party were regarded as too…

Here’s the rub

12 years ago

We are coming to a critical and delicate moment in the diplomacy about Syria.  The Annan peace plan, which does…

Dumb and dumber

12 years ago

Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dačić yesterday announced the arrest of two Kosovo Albanians in retaliation for the arrest of four…