The UN resolution on Syria: Moscow Rules
Meetings are in New York, but the decisions are being made here. The Syrian train-wreck has moved into its United Nations phase, where it will stay. The Security Council has now officially demanded...
View ArticleThe Syrian disaster: We can stop pretending now
There is no silence like an embarrassed silence. It’s the kind of thing you can feel hanging over everyone’s head at a social occasion, only mildly dented by the squeak of a chair or the light clatter...
View ArticleSyria and The Myth of the Exit Strategy
If only it were that simple. In a recent article for War on the Rocks, Peter Munson expanded on a debate I’d had with him on Twitter over intervention in Syria. WOTR generously offered me space to...
View ArticleAmerica’s hollow foreign policy debate
I took this picture in June at Park Street station in Boston. This is about as sophisticated as most people get when it comes to foreign policy. Summertime, and the livin’ is easy, unless you’re...
View ArticleWhen I predicted the current era of intervention: Read the first chapter of...
In 2008, I wrote a book called Eve of Destruction, in which I predicted the current era of intervention, humanitarian and otherwise. Thanks to the generosity of my publisher, the University of...
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