There's an old joke that goes something like this: A self-absorbed fellow, meeting a friend, launches into an endless soliloquy about himself, then abruptly stops and says, "Well, enough about me. Now, tell me what you think of me." Sometimes Washington has...
AfPak: Illegal, Immoral, Fattening
Commuting to War
Thursday: 1 US Soldier, 6 Iraqis Killed; 15 Iraqis Wounded
Alas Afghanistan
My Problem with J Street
Wednesday: 1 US Soldier, 10 Iraqis Killed; 19 Iraqis Wounded
Arrogant US Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People
There has always been in American foreign policy circles a virus called arrogance, caused by the hereditary assumption that Americans know better than others. Surprisingly, this does not always prove the case, but the condition seems highly resistant to treatment,...
Afghan Insurgents: Terrorists, or Tea Partiers?
In waging its war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration faces a big problem, and his name is Hamid Karzai. This fashion plate, whose name has become synonymous with corruption, claims to be the president of Afghanistan, but this is a double fiction. In reality, he...
Netanyahu Unsure How to Contain Gaza Fallout
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself embattled on several fronts as he tries so far unsuccessfully to ward off the enormous international pressure on Israel unleashed by the Goldstone report for its conduct of the war...


