Forget whatever flavor of the month is making headlines in the Balkans. Guess where the perpetrators of nearly every terrorist plot of the last twenty years got their start?
Washington should not give foreign-policy priority to Kosovo. Merry responds to Abramowitz and Hooper’s prescriptions.
Islamic governments need to respect religious liberty at home before lecturing the West about intolerance.
Obama’s speech in Cairo will only lend credibility to a dictatorial regime and hamper his quest for a fresh start with the Muslim world.
The Taliban’s PR in Pakistan is pretty bad. If we stopped drone attacks, the insurgency would become even more unpopular.
Our adventurism in the Balkans is having serious consequences for American regional interests, even a decade later.
Pakistan will muddle through post-Musharraf. But violence, instability and a fractious political coalition will plague Islamabad.
The war in South Ossetia is a stark reminder that the United States cannot accomplish its goals in Eastern Europe and the Balkans without Russian help. The next president will have to work hard to repair relations.
A number of American commentators-such as the American Enterprise Institute's Tom Donnelly-have seemed oddly disappointed with the progress of the military campaign against Iraq.
Hillary Clinton claims she has “experience” in the Balkans. Only problem is, her husband's administration badly mishandled the Kosovo War of 1999.