Critics of the current U.S. strategy in Afghanistan often miss the point that the practical alternative isn't peace and withdrawal. It's endless war, fought from a distance — the ideal incubator for more 9/11-style blowback.
5 CommentsIsrael's deadly raid on the Turkish flotilla sent relations between the erstwhile allies to a new low. Turkey can afford the rift. Can Israel?
23 CommentsFor the first time in memory, a libertarian, noninterventionist conservative has triumphed over the GOP's hawkish mainstream. That's something every American should celebrate.
12 CommentsThe last of the pro-American "color revolutions" flamed out last month in Kyrgyzstan. Good riddance.
9 CommentsAfter decades of playing second fiddle to the U.S., Britain, like other U.S. allies, is prepared to chart a more independent course. It's about time.
The U.S.'s dysfunctional patron-client relationship with Israel yields a predictable result: Once again, Israel disses Washington and does what it wants.
The assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai has roiled Israel's allies, with the potential to isolate Israel further. Has Israel given up thinking strategically?
Obama appears already to have given up on his policy of engagement with Iran. The alternative is to repeat the failures of the past -- and live with the ugly consequences.
21 CommentsIt can't go on forever, but the era of conservative internationalism has promised Americans global primacy and policing—all for free, with a cherry on top.
The White House has compared the president's troop increase in Afghanistan to Bush's surge in Iraq. Actually, it's much, much riskier.
Expectations of American presidents and American power are wildly out of synch with the realities of globalization and a multi-polar world. Obama's steady, dull progress in diplomacy is not the stuff of drama, but it is the future.
Obama has pro-Israel credibility among Arabs, where it does him no good. But he lacks it where he most needs it, leaving him powerless to enforce his demand for a freeze on Israeli settlements.
On foreign policy, Obama is trying to undo the damage of the Bush years. Why do David Frum and other Republicans want to stop him?
A change of power in Tokyo this weekend will transform Japan into a truly multi-party democracy. But it will also make Japan a more independent operator on the world stage—one less inclined to follow the dictates of U.S. foreign policy.
Will the GOP's ugly primary fight doom their candidate?
A judge forces a man who criticized his estranged wife on Facebook to post online apologies — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation
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