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What Does The Killing of Ahmed Wali Karzai Mean? | Stephen M. Walt - Foreign Policy

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[image error] What Does The Killing of Ahmed Wali Karzai Mean? | Stephen M. Walt
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I don't know any more than you do about the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the well-connected and notoriously corrupt half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who was also de facto governor of Kandahar province and reportedly on the CIA ...

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Whatever happened to the war in Libya? - Foreign Policy

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Vacation is over, and as I took the bus to my office this morning I had a sudden thought: Whatever happened to the war in Libya? You know, the one that used to be on the front pages every day? The one that was critical to preventing a humanitarian ...

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Stephen M. Walt: Whatever happened to the war in Libya - Foreign Policy

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Vacation is over, and as I took the bus to my office this morning I had a sudden thought: whatever happened to the war in Libya? You know, the one that used to be on the front pages every day? The one that was critical to preventing a humanitarian ...

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Rethinking retrenchment: Can the United States do less and do better? - Foreign Policy

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... or unwilling to make the hard choices necessary to pull of this adjustment or to impose that consensus on the entire national security establishment. Retrenchment is going to happen eventually, I'm sure, just not nearly as fast as it should have.

Stephen M. Walt: Rethinking retrenchment: Can the United States do less and do ... - Foreign Policy

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[image error] Stephen M. Walt: Rethinking retrenchment: Can the United States do less and do ...
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My vacation is drawing to a close, and as usual, I didn't get as much done as I'd hoped. I did bring my reading list along and I've made some progress on it, but then I got distracted re-reading Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars. It's even more depressing ...

Stephen M. Walt: Eldar: "The Oslo Process is over" - Foreign Policy

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In case you missed it, veteran Israeli journalist Akiva Eldar has written a scathing denunciation of US Middle East policy -- and long-time Middle East advisor Dennis Ross -- in Ha'aretz. His bottom line is that Oslo is over, yet the United States is ...

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Going off the grid... - Foreign Policy

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I'm off on my summer vacation tomorrow, and I'm hoping to spend most of my time away from blogging. Not that I don't find this enjoyable and even a bit addictive, but pounding out prose on a daily basis is also draining and it's time to recharge my ...

Stephen M. Walt: Going off the grid... - Foreign Policy

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[image error] Stephen M. Walt: Going off the grid...
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I'm off on my summer vacation tomorrow, and I'm hoping to spend most of my time away from blogging. Not that I don't find this enjoyable and even a bit addictive, but pounding out prose on a daily basis is also draining and it's time to recharge my ...

Thanks, Bob! - Foreign Policy

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As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates cleans out his desk and heads for retirement, Ido Oren of the University of Florida highlights what might have been his most important accomplishment: preventing a war with Iran. Money quotation: "This scenario [of ...

Stephen M. Walt: Thanks, Bob! - Foreign Policy

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[image error] Stephen M. Walt: Thanks, Bob!
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As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates cleans out his desk and heads for retirement, Ido Oren of the University of Florida highlights what might have been his most important accomplishment: preventing a war with Iran. Money quotation: "This scenario [of ...