Marc Lynch's Blog, page 34

Step Away, Do Nothing, Pat Self on Back

It looks like the Obama administration has found its grand strategy after all.

How the Pakistani Military Mindset Evolved

The U.S.-Israel Relationship Arrives at a Moment of Reckoning

An exclusive talk with former U.S. Special Envoy Martin Indyk on Israel’s new allies, the Gaza blowup, and why Washington shrugged when the peace process collapsed.

How Not to End a Plague

From thuggish quarantines to botched burials, is the Liberian government’s handling of the Ebola crisis making it worse?

The people who most closely identified with President Obama are the ones shaken most by his foreign policy failures

Mowing the Grass and Taking Out the Trash

Israel doesn't
want to wipe out Hamas, and putting it in a corner will only backfire.

UN Asks India, Pakistan for Peaceful Dialogue; Cleric 'Ready to Die' in Islamabad; Abdullah Threatens Afghan Audit Withdrawal

U.S. Claims Egypt and UAE Launched Airstrikes in Libya

The Problem with Calling Those U.S. and Chinese Planes a 'School Bus and a Ferrari'

With relations this touchy, even simple metaphors can go awry.

FP's Situation Report: Groundwork begins for Syria airstrikes; Are Libyan airstrikes really a surprise?; The Forgotten wars of the Obama administration; The loaded meaning of a Ferrari in Beijing; 1997 calling; and a bit more.