Hillary Clinton’s Al Haig Moment

October 18, 2012

Clinton had her Al Haig moment when she took responsibility for the Libya attack. The secretary of state is not in charge.

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Happy Endings That Almost Didn’t Happen

October 21, 2011

Gadhafi’s demise may seem inevitable in retrospect, but it wasn’t. The Libyan rebellion had to be rescued in the nick of time.

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There’s Journalism, And There’s Journalists

August 25, 2011

When something big happens, the press turns to the public because everyone can be a journalist these days.

Exit Routes For Despots

August 24, 2011

Counting the ways to overthrow a dictator.

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Mixed Reviews At Home But Boffo In Beijing

June 28, 2011

President Obama’s decision to tap America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve is getting mixed reviews at home, but some foreign audiences should be on their feet to applaud. Beijing’s central planners must love the American president’s determination to bring down the price of their imported oil without asking them to touch one drop of their own strategic reserves. Italy’s business and political elite, cut off from their usual supply of light, sweet …

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A Presidency In Search Of A President

April 8, 2011

Barack Obama’s announcement this week that he will again seek the presidency in 2012 is welcome news, in a way, because this country sorely needs a president. What it has right now is a chairman. Granted, the incumbent’s title is President Obama, not Chairman Obama. But apart from the title and trappings of his office, the only thing presidential about Obama’s performance thus far has been, on occasion, his rhetoric. …

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Libya And The ‘Bystander Effect’

March 11, 2011

Exactly 47 years ago this weekend, a young woman named Kitty Genovese screamed for help as she was attacked outside her Queens, N.Y., apartment building. The New York Times reported two weeks later that 38 neighbors heard her cries but did nothing until it was too late. That story was probably wrong in its details — investigators later determined that an initial stabbing pierced the woman’s lungs, leaving her unable …

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A Revolutionary Idea: Stasis Is Not Stable

February 23, 2011

Financial markets around the world recoiled this week at the spectacle of Libya’s bloodbath, but it was not out of empathy or compassion. We feel such human emotions as individuals, but they do not apply in a marketplace. A market is where buyers and sellers get together. If the savagery unleashed by Col. Moammar Gadhafi makes you want to sell something, does it simultaneously inspire someone else to buy? Is …

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