An anticlimactic summit revealed most of the allies lack the will and the wallet to fulfill NATO's lofty promises.
Weapons and unrest are spreading from Libya and inflaming long-dormant tensions throughout the region.
Washington's best hope for progress in Syria may be a high-stakes negotiation with Russia.
Protecting innocent lives is a valid argument for humanitarian intervention. Promoting regime change is not.
Arguments that Iran or Syria can be the "next Libya" are overly simplistic.
As the Brazilian president arrives in Washington, a look at the progress and underlying tensions in the U.S.-Brazil relationship.
Assad has chemical weapons. Whether he will use them—and what will happen to them if he falls—remains unknown.
The quickest, least bloody path to a stable, unitary Syria may be for America to stay out. If Uncle Sam goes in, all bets are off.
The costs of a Syrian intervention are undoubtedly high. But the benefits may be surprisingly great.
Programs that failed to lick poverty, win the war on drugs and otherwise cure what ails America won't work in Afghanistan or Iraq either.
