They still hate us: No one wants to be America, anymore
Forget the standard lunacy that emerging nations “hate our freedoms.” They just don’t want to be Westernized It is common enough, and true, to say that what happens in Egypt as it stumbles through its political dawn or dusk —…
The Coup in Egypt: A Failure Greater than Morsi
The removal from power of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s duly elected president will never change one irrefutable truth: If you applaud or support military coups in democracies—even young, wrongheaded democracies—you aid in the making of a very messy world. Only a…
America’s imperial decline: Must Dick Cheney always be president?
Barack Obama talks like a constitutional lawyer, but acts like Dick Cheney. Snowden shows it’s the same old America Edward Snowden has been on the lam for nearly three weeks now. The 30-year-old computer whiz has gone from Hawaii to…
As the Middle East Unravels, the US Pulls No Strings
Much of the Middle East is suddenly coming unglued–with it, years of US effort to encourage democratic order in the region will go to waste. It is time for Washington to do something very smart–nearly nothing. Syria and Egypt are…
Turkey Could Be the Middle East’s Powder Keg
Maybe it had to come to this, given that Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s bullheaded, probably corrupt prime minister, heads an Islamist government in a nation far down the road to secularism. Erdoğan has lately limited the sale of alcohol and put…
American exceptionalism is a dangerous myth
Move beyond Tea Party lies and phony patriotism. This Memorial Day, let’s remember our history honestly Excerpted from “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” At one end of the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., in the expanse between…
The Post Austerity Way Forward for Europe
Italian voters delivered a hopelessly inconclusive election result last week. But the message they sent–to their political leaders, to Brussels, to Germany, to the global markets–is crystal clear: The austerity policies now in place to remedy Europe’s fiscal and economic…
China’s Provocative Blunder in the Pacific
China is now making East Asia as unsafe as it possibly can. Tokyo and Beijing are not that far from blows over a few forsaken rocks in the East China Sea. Is Beijing behaving badly because it wants to flex…
The Global Fiscal and Political “Cliffs” of 2013
The U.S. “fiscal cliff” is one of many fiscal and political precipices to be faced globally in the New Year. Here’s a snapshot of how far the world will have to climb in 2013. SYRIA To begin with the hottest…
Sanctions Will Turn Iran into Another Cuba
The U.S. and European sanctions imposed on Iran earlier this year seem to be working with a vengeance. As if by remote control, the West has thousands of Iranians taking to the streets while the nation’s political elites are splitting…
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