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The Danger of an Start-the-Exit Date

Mysteries of the AfPak Strategy, Chapt I

Karzai's Fall

Three Big Questions About Obama's Afghanistan Plan

Three Years and Out of Afghanistan [Update: Not]

White House Officials Clarify Talk of Three Year Time Line in Afghanistan

What About Afghan Women?

Obama: No Dithering

MoveOn vs. Obama

Bye Bye, Dubai

Trouble for Zardari Means Trouble for Obama

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How Many Foreign Ministers Did *You* Speak to on Thanksgiving?

Realism in Afghanistan

Obama's One Conceivable Foreign Policy Victory: It's Honduras. But He Won't Acknowledge It. Too Bad.

Whack-a-Mole in Pakistan

"Train Crash in Russia Caused by Bomb"

Dubai Collapses, the Markets All Fall Down, and I Gloat