President Obama today decided to draw down 30 million barrels of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the White House claims…
Invited to speak to the U.S. intelligence community about the prospects for democracy in Iraq, I prepared a paper that…
The President went for the bigger, faster drawdown option in his speech this evening. I commented on The World. He…
Foreign policy eyes and ears will be on the President's Afghanistan speech tonight. But I fear the President will focus…
Colum Lynch reports yesterday that Sudan seems to be pursuing peace in one province even as it opts for war…
The headline writers are suggesting that Syria's Bashar al Assad has lost his mind, and others that his speech today…
Douglas Ollivant at foreignpolicy.com is asking the right questions: What are our national interests in Afghanistan? Which of those are…
Regular readers of www.peacefare.net will know that I don't usually refer to Tom Friedman, who often strikes me as more…
My discussion last night with stalwarts of the Foreign Policy Initiative in Sarajevo suggested one important elaboration on yesterday's post--an…
I think of myself not as an optimist or pessimist, but as a realist, albeit an occasionally imaginative (hopefully not…