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Obama: Great Speaker, Not God
I am a late addition to the bandwagon of blogosphere praise for the President’s speech delivered in Cairo yesterday. He hit all the right notes on Israeli-Palestinian peace, US engagement with the...
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An Insurance Policy for the US-Russia Reset
This article was originally published on the Open Democracy Network. The US-Russia “reset,” so named by Vice President Biden in a February speech, is far from complete, despite impressive progress over...
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9/11/09
What is most striking about the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks may be its ordinariness. Certainly, memorials and moments of silence will be observed across the nation, as they should...
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Politico: Bipolar on Bipartisanship?
This morning’s Politico was all over the political map, at least when it comes to the issue of bipartisanship in Washington. As several colleagues on Capitol Hill have pointed out to me, an...
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Obama Takes a Long View of Missile Defense
The following op-ed appeared in the Grand Forks Herald this morning President Barack Obama’s decision last week to scuttle missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic was the second time the...
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The US-Russia-Ukraine Triangle
With the possible exception of Georgia-US-Russia, no US relationship in the former Soviet region is more fraught today than the US-Russia-Ukraine triangle. At a time when Washington and Moscow have...
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Afghanistan Debate Tonight
Tonight I will be participating in a bipartisan debate titled “The Hard Path Forward,” on whether the US military presence in Afghanistan should be increased or reduced. The debate is the first event...
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Bringing the Public to the Table This Thanksgiving
Two years ago this week, on this blog, I wrote the following about politicians who thank men and women in uniform “for their service” without doing anything to improve their lot: After six years of...
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Obsession with Nuclear Deterrent Doesn’t Add Up
Retired Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral James Lyons argued in a Washington Times opinion piece on Monday that the US should “halt our participation in the START negotiations until we bring balance...
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An End to False STARTs?
After over a year of rollercoaster US-Russia talks on a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), it appears the two sides have finally reached a deal. Securing a new US-Russia...
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