If we want to stop being the world’s policeman, to whom do we turn over our badge? If we can get over our prejudice against the UN, it’s a logical choice. Continue reading →

The President overrode the establishment in fully backing the revolutionaries in Cairo. Could this be a harbinger of stronger Presidential leadership generally? Continue reading →

Her main target, according to one view, is white American high school grads who have lost their jobs… Continue reading →

Bibi stiffed Obama. If the President doesn’t want to take it lying down, he has options. Continue reading →

OK, the war is winding down. We should learn at least three lessons from the whole sorry history. Continue reading →

Turkey is at a tipping point between its European option and a future as a central Asian power. Let’s not let a desire to throw a bone to Israel push them the wrong way. Continue reading →

There are several illuminating similarities between the way our national legislature works and a constipated old man trying, with very limited success, to move his bowels. Continue reading →

I don’t know any more about the Shahram Amiri case than what was in the newspapers, but I have had a personal experience that may provide a precedent. I was the American Consul in Tabriz from summer 1963 till summer … Continue reading →

Today’s Christian Science Monitor (per Truthout) reports that during several attacks during the last twenty-four hours, the Taliban managed to kill another eight American soldiers. The report suggests that this is consistent with a buildup in the scale and effectiveness … Continue reading →

General McChrystal’s Rolling Stone article was the ostensible reason for his getting sacked but an even more important factor may have been press reports attributed to him and his staff that were leaked earlier in June. They painted a bleak … Continue reading →

Obama’s speech from the Oval Office, about the Gulf oil crisis, has been widely greeted as a disappointment, criticized from the the left as well as from the right. Now that I’ve read the text, I fail to see the … Continue reading →

Ok, the fat’s in the fire and we have some interesting choices. Continue reading →

Our mainstream media, once again, are giving a biased side of the news. Continue reading →

There is hope if the speech signals more emphasis on fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, as contrasted with focusing entirely on Taliban. Continue reading →

There’s a blackout in the US media about an unusually newsworthy event. Continue reading →

Obama has the misfortune to find himself on a multi-dimensional tight rope Continue reading →