Terms of Engagement
List of Terms of Engagement articles
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YouTube The End of the Arab Dream
Muammar al-Qaddafi's fall won't just mark the close of an awful dictatorship -- it will end the Arab world's disastrous half-century-long affair with utopian governing fantasies.
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MARK WILSON/AFP/Getty Images Slash and Burn
Congressional Republicans are bent on all but eliminating the U.S. government's foreign aid budget. And Defense Secretary Robert Gates may be the only one who can stop them.
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-/AFP/Getty Images Don’t Fear the Brotherhood
Running away from the Islamic party is exactly what the entrenched Egyptian ruling class wants America to do.
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Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Let’s Try This Again
Egypt could be a watershed moment for democracy promotion in the Arab world -- but only if the United States understands how it went wrong the last time.
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MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images The Post-Tunisia World
Last week's upheaval showed that citizens of the Arab world are willing and able to overthrow their dictators -- and the Obama administration has to figure out how it will respond when they do.
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JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/Getty Images A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The Forum for the Future was supposed to be an instrument of George W. Bush's Middle East freedom agenda. Seven years later, it embodies everything that was wrong with it -- and the Arab street is taking matters into its own hands.
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ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images Africa’s Hour
Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to give up power isn't just a crisis for the Ivory Coast -- it's a moment of truth for the whole continent.
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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A Chief’s Service
Meet Adm. Mike Mullen, unsung hero of Congress's not-so-lame duck session -- and Sen. Lindsey Graham, its undeniable goat.
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AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images Two States, No Solutions
Barack Obama says the Israeli-Palestinian impasse is a threat to the United States' national security. But is he acting like it is?
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Win McNamee/Getty Images A Man For Barbarous Coasts
Remembering Richard Holbrooke.
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Chris Hondros/Getty Images The Sunshine Policy
The United States has quietly asked allies like Yemen and Pakistan for some extraordinary favors in its war on terrorism. Is it really so terrible if WikiLeaks forces them to explain those demands?
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Chris Hondros/Getty Images The Land of No Good Options
The WikiLeaks cables show a U.S. diplomatic corps adept at diagnosing the big problems of American foreign policy -- and a country hopeless at solving them.
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ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images A Glimmer of Hope in Southern Sudan
For now, all's quiet on the north-south front. But President Omar Hassan al-Bashir may still have a few cards to play before January's all-important referendum.
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AFP/Getty Images The Bomb Squad
Are Senate Republicans really crazy enough to blow up Barack Obama's nuclear nonproliferation agenda?
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GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images Did Bibi Win the Midterms?
The Republican Congress isn't even in office yet and already it's screwing up the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
