Inappropriate happy talk for Syria

8 years ago

Donald Trump, at a loss for something to say as Aleppo fell to Syrian government, Iranian and Russian forces, renewed…

Big trouble brewing

8 years ago

President-elect Trump's cabinet appointments were not moderates from the first. With the exception of Defense and Homeland Security, he has appointed…

The still growing Sunni-Shia divide

8 years ago

The Atlantic Council yesterday introduced a book by a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center, Geneive Abdo,…

You get what you vote for

8 years ago

Washington is in a tizzy today because President-elect Trump is naming Exxon Chief Executive Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of…

Peace Picks December 12-16

8 years ago

US Security Assistance and Human Rights | Monday, December 12 | 10:00am – 11:30am | Brookings Institution | Click HERE…

Jihad and the next administration

8 years ago

USIP's discussion today of "Getting Ahead of the Curve: the evolving threat of violent extremism" was a study in contrasts.…

Trump’s bromance

8 years ago

Of Trump's many vices, his bromance with Putin is arguably the worst, at least from a foreign policy perspective. Putin…

The Aleppo defeat

8 years ago

You can always tell when a cause is lost: the UN General Assembly passes a resolution to stop the bombing, allow…

The anti-cabinet

8 years ago

I've already noted that Donald Trump's cabinet picks are not moderates. Since then he has added to his radical menagerie…

I’m disappointed

8 years ago

In his valedictory address on counterterrorism yesterday at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, President Obama waxed poetic about diplomacy,…