The State of US’ India policy
The United States sends mixed messages to India.On the one hand, Washington highlighted the importance of India’s rise and leadership in its Indo-Pacific Strategy, designated India a Major Defense Partner,...
Policy
The Qatar Ultimatum
In the aftermath of the terrorist atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush drew a line in the sand. “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make,” he annou...
Op-eds
PayPal Probes Neo-Nazi Account Supportive of Holocaust Denier, Hezbollah
PayPal launched an investigation last week into its account with a neo-Nazi organization that is pro-Hezbollah, pro-Assad and also supports a convicted Holocaust denier. In response to a...
Op-eds
Defining violent extremism down
Death, where is thy sting? For Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, it certainly didn’t come from the mainstream media. The 82-year-old former Iranian president died of a heart attac...
Op-eds
How President-elect Trump might undo Obama’s hostility to Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is counting the days until Barack Obama leaves office. So are many supporters...
Op-eds
Obama’s Syria Policy Striptease
America’s settled policy of standing by while half a million Syrians have been killed, millions have become refugees, and large swaths of their country have been re...
Op-eds
Done Deal?
All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...
Op-eds
The Anatomy of an Evolving Threat: Publication of Classified Information
Fast-paced technological advances have, for decades, been causing wrenching changes to national security and international affairs that are generally unappreciated until a crisis arrives. And eve...
Op-eds
Engagement Is Back
President Obama’s policy of engagement with Iran is back on track–this is the core message of the president’s speech earlier today at the United Nations General Assembly....
Op-eds
A 40-Year US Embassy Crisis
The murders in Benghazi are the latest in a string of attacks on American diplomats to go unanswered by the US
Op-eds
Bashar’s Cult of Personality
Last week, the daily Al-Joumhouria published the transcripts of the surveillance tapes in the case of former mi...
Op-eds
Whose Middle East Policy Is It, Anyway?
The State Department contradicts Obama and previous presidents on the “right of return.”
Op-eds
In Defense of Biofuels
On the world markets, the cost of a barrel of oil is, at this writing, over $120. In the United States, a gallon of gasoline now costs, on average, roughly $3.50. Even when adjusted for inflation...
Op-eds
Last Chance for Public Diplomacy
The right messenger could make a world of difference.
Op-eds
A Different Kind of Justice
‘Justice has been done.” That was President Obama’s succinct assessment of the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special-ops forces, carried out at his direction on Sunday. &ld...
Op-eds
Seeing Only What They Want to See
Bob Woodward's new book is less an expose than an inkblot test. It's remarkable how people can see the same words on the same pages - and come away with entirely different pictures....