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Ahmed Chalabi

Dreams of Babylon

Iraq is not yesterday’s war. If Obama withdraws too quickly, the tenuous peace will collapse.

Patient Stabilized?

Iraq may be emerging from intensive care, but it could use a bit more stitching up.

Invasive Procedures

Saving Iraq and Afghanistan will require some extensive operations.

In Defense of Striped Pants

Governments get the bureaucracies the deserve.

Rethinking the Strategy

In order to deal effectively with America's predicament in Iraq, it is essential to understand that we had begun to walk down the road to Baghdad long before September 11, indeed, quite before the Bush Administration came to power.

Insecuring Iraq

Commentary

Nuclear Rangoon

If we want to stop Burma’s atomic ambitions, we should engage the regime and encourage political liberalization.

Bad Clients

The Ahmed Chalabi fiasco is just the latest chapter in America’s long history of being duped by foreign political actors.

Russia's Limousine Liberals

Russian liberals, through their relentless criticism of Moscow’s domestic and foreign policies in the Western press, are actively offending ordinary Russians—and thus undermining any hope of the democratic reforms they want coming to pass.

Blogs

What Produced U.S. Analysis of the Georgia-Russia War in 2008?

How the Wikileaks documents prove NATO should shut its open-door policy toward Ukraine and Georgia.

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February 13, 2012