Terms of Engagement
List of Terms of Engagement articles
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Alex Wong/Getty Images The Five-Year Engagement
As Obama begins his second term, one thing is clear: the administration's Iran policy is failing. What now, Mr. President?
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AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images The Team of Buddies
Is President Obama’s national security team too like-minded and conservative about the limits of American power?
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Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images Nation-Building in the Classroom
Has President Obama given up too soon on hopes for fixing Afghanistan?
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JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images Second-Term Heat
What will be the legacy of Obama's next four years?
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Scott Olson/Getty Images Exit, Minus Strategy
Barack Obama has clearly decided to cut his losses in Afghanistan. Will all hell break lose when he does?
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Mark Wilson/Getty Images Welcome, Know-Nothings
The new Congress is a bunch of ignoramuses when it comes to foreign policy. And, frankly, that's probably a good thing right now.
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Photosteve101/Flickr Hope Against Hope
A look back at what I've gotten wrong, and why I'm (mostly) not sorry.
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AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images Secretaries of Safe
Obama’s likely national security picks are going to reinforce his innate caution -- for better and for worse.
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David McNew/Getty Images The Climate Scofflaw
Is the United States really the impediment to a universal compact on global warming?
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FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images Extrication Negotiations
The United States is ready to start talking to the Taliban about a peace deal again. But nothing's going to happen without Pakistan.
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EZZ AL-ZAANOUN/AFP/Getty Images Life Inside the Iron Dome
Why President Obama shouldn't accept Israel's policy of defensiveness and despair.
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Ethan Miller/Getty Images Silent but Deadly
How the State Department tried and failed to force Obama’s drone program into the open.
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Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images Secretary Kerry
Would John Kerry do a good job of filling Hillary Clinton’s shoes?
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Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images Adapt or Die
Still think climate change is a joke?
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Marc Serota/Getty Images The Amphibian
How Barack Obama learned to cover his right flank -- and his left.
