Time To Target Qaddafi’s Stuff
NATO’s current strategy has effectively reached the end of its road. Divisions between member states, anti-Qaddafi forces, and the alliance’s command structure, plus Qaddafi’s forces’ adopting altered...
View ArticleOn Syria, Speak Up Please
Let’s grant that Washington has limited leverage over Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad. Let’s further stipulate that Assad’s claim that it’s either him or the Islamists, while self-serving, could turn...
View ArticleThe Death of a Terrorist
President Obama’s dramatic announcement last night that U.S. intelligence and security forces finally caught up with Osama bin Laden was deeply satisfying. Bin Laden picked a fight with America,...
View Article5 Things That Should Be in Obama’s Speech on the Middle East
The president is set to deliver a major address today on the Middle East. Here are five things his speech must include: 1. The Obvious: America stands by people the world over who seek freedom of...
View ArticleWill Marshall Featured in Democracy Digest on Obama’s Speech
PPI President Will Marshall is featured today in Democracy Digest on President Obama’s Middle East speech. Please click this link to read the entire article: The Arab revolt is history’s unanticipated...
View ArticleArab Spring in the Balance
Americans, conditioned by harsh experience to expect nothing but trouble from the Middle East, have been thrilled and inspired by the Arab Spring. But now a practical question looms: Just how far are...
View ArticleAnother One Bites the Dust
Unlike the dictators of Tunisia and Egypt, Muammar el-Qaddafi refused to go peaceably when the Arab spring uprisings migrated next door to Libya. Last week he paid for that defiance with his life; an...
View ArticleCan Unions Open Burma?
PPI Special Report The following is a guest column from PPI friend and sometime contributor Earl Brown, Labor and Employment Law Counsel for the American Center for International Labor Solidarity. If...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Communitarian
PPI President Will Marshal explains why Bill Clinton’s contributions to restoring the language of civic obligation are so frequently overlooked over at Democracy: “In “Restoring the Language of...
View ArticleDespots Mourn Chávez
Sean Penn lamented that he “lost a friend” when Venezuelan caudillo Hugo Chávez died yesterday. Sean, you’re not alone: So did the world’s dictators. Hugo Chávez championed Venezuela’s poor and...
View ArticleCNN: Should the American Gulliver be tied down?
Having recently warned of the high costs and limited utility of U.S. military force, President Barack Obama is in Normandy to mark the 70th anniversary of one of its grandest achievements: the D-Day...
View ArticleCNN: No time to turn back on world’s most combustible region
Suddenly, Iraq is coming apart at the seams. Its government seems powerless to stop the rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a group so extreme and aggressive that even al Qaeda has...
View ArticleIraq: It’s Not About Us
The debate over how to keep Iraq from falling apart reveals a peculiarly American kind of self-centeredness. When things blow up abroad, we often spend more time arguing about the U.S. reaction to the...
View ArticleTime: Obama Can Ignore Public Opinion on Foreign Policy
National security works differently than domestic issues, and actually leaves the White House broad latitude to act and lead abroad–as long as its efforts produce results. Last August, as President...
View ArticleDon’t Listen to the Polls: Why Obama Has More Room for Foreign Activism Than...
It’s become a truism that Americans have turned so far inward that they will not tolerate national security initiatives that carry a risk of major costs or casualties. War-weary after Iraq and...
View ArticlePOLITICO: Can Hillary Fix Obama’s Mess?
On Barack Obama’s watch, Democrats have defined their international outlook largely in reactive and negative terms. The president has focused on fixing his predecessor’s mistakes, leaving unclear what...
View ArticleFive important lessons about America’s long war against Islamist extremism
Yesterday’s airstrikes on Islamic State and other terrorist targets in Syria yield five important lessons about America’s long war against Islamist extremism: First, Syria has become a haven for...
View ArticleThe Hill: Leading out front
President Obama’s forceful speech to the United Nations last week appeared to mark a sharp—and welcome—turn in his thinking about Islamist terrorism and the wisdom of U.S. retrenchment. Rather than...
View ArticleNew York Daily News: Hong Kong screams, America is silent
Listening to our government’s weaselly evasions on the protests in Hong Kong makes me wish America had an Aaron Neville Doctrine. Neville is the New Orleans crooner whose soul classic, “Tell It Like It...
View ArticleThe Iran deal and collective security
A buoyant President Obama announced on April 2 “a historic understanding with Iran” to defang its nuclear program. Chalk one up for the president’s oft-criticized Middle East diplomacy. If it holds,...
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