Washington Journal: Iraq and Afghanistan

8 years ago

Here is my appearance last Saturday on C-Span's Washington Journal discussing Iraq and Afghanistan:

The end of despair

8 years ago

Even as hope fades for peace talks, Syrian civil society gives me reason not to despair. Here is my preface to…

The Bytyqi brothers

8 years ago

Praveen Madhiraju, a pro bono advisor to the Btyqi family, writes:  "Don't worry, we'll resolve [the Bytyqi murders], and I…

Hope fades

8 years ago

The Syria peace talks, never substantial, are evaporating. The chief negotiator for the opposition has quit. The Russians and the…

Peace picks May 31-June 3

8 years ago

The Iran nuclear deal: Prelude to proliferation in the Middle East? | Tuesday, May 31st | 9:30-11:00 | Brookings |…

Thunder should roll for them all

8 years ago

I have added just a little to what I said last year on Memorial Day, which in the US is…

This is a great America, again

8 years ago

President Obama's remarks at Hiroshima yesterday are worth reading: Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from…

Remember Nagasaki

8 years ago

The Obama Administration has been desperately trying to counter any suggestion that the President's visit to Hiroshima today represented an…

Iraq’s plan for national reconciliation

8 years ago

As the Iraqi government launches its effort to recover Fallujah from the Islamic State (ISIS), it behooves us to ask…

One thing not to worry about

8 years ago

Yesterday's front-page New York Times piece on radicalization in Kosovo is every diplomat's nightmare: a well-written, prominent story with solid facts that…