The worst of all possible worlds

14 years ago

It is getting hard to keep score, though this graphic from Al Jazeera English may help.  Today's big news is…

Circling the square

14 years ago

Joyce Karam of Al Hayat yesterday asked me some interesting questions about Iraq, Iran, Syria and the United States.  Here…

Quicker is better, but use the delay well

14 years ago

"Impractical, unenforceable and unwise" are the labels I gave yesterday to Anne-Marie Slaughter's proposal for highly conditional military aid to…

Serbia squeezed

14 years ago

Milan Marinković writes again from Nis: The period of economic hardship Serbia is entering will afford the country's new government,…

Impractical, unenforceable and unwise

14 years ago

A Free Syrian Army (FSA) leader (the Guardian says he is Mustafa al-Sheikh, identified as head of the FSA supreme…

What Romney forgot in Poland

14 years ago

The American press, always anxious to cover itself, is boiling over about the rudeness of a Mitt Romney press aide…

Farewell Pristina

14 years ago

I traveled back to the U.S. yesterday, leaving behind this interview in English, published by Pristina's Daily Express in Albanian:…

This week’s peace picks

14 years ago

Summer doldrums, but some interesting events nevertheless: 1. An Assessment of the Obama Administration's Africa Strategy, Heritage Foundation, 10-11:30 am…

The zombie that haunts the Balkans

14 years ago

I promised yesterday a solution to Macedonia's problems today, but to get there I am going to have to detour.  …

Serbia faces tough choices

14 years ago

Milan Marinković writes from Niš: After some two months of postelection negotiations, the new Serbian government is finally formed and…