Terms of Engagement
List of Terms of Engagement articles
-
VICTORIA HAZOU/AFP/Getty Images Exodus
Is there a place for Christians in the new Middle East?
-
FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images That Seventies Show
France's newly dominant Socialists have absorbed the lessons of American politics -- but are they planning to take the republic back to the future?
-
MOHAMED HOSSAM/AFP/Getty Images Is There Light At The End of Egypt’s Tunnel?
Egypt is a mess right now, but if its Army can figure out how to give up power and set elections on course, there's still hope for a happy ending.
-
HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images Punitive Measures
The coming Palestinian statehood push at the United Nations is a train wreck. But with the U.S. Congress promising punishment for this effrontery, it's not just Palestinians who will come away grievously injured.
-
PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images Twilight in Manhattan, Dawn in Tripoli
America did nearly everything wrong in the post-9/11 world. The post-Arab Spring world is our chance to finally get it right.
-
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images Over the Horizon
Is worrying about war with China a self-fulfilling prophecy?
-
PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images Ready for Day One
Meet the Libyan postwar planners who put the Bush administration's Iraq team to shame.
-
MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images A Revolution, with Qualifications
What the naysayers got right about the Arab Spring.
-
Photodisc/Getty Images Can Obama Be Just Like Ike?
If you want to cut the defense budget, ask a Republican (just not these Republicans).
-
CHRISTINA M. SHAW/AFP/Getty Images All Guns, No Butter
What the debt ceiling deal tells us about the Tea Party's grim vision of American power.
-
ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images Less Is More
Cutting U.S. military aid to Pakistan might be just what the world's most frustrating alliance needs.
-
GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images A Just War, and an Unfinished One
Recognizing Libya's rebels was the right move by the United States and its allies -- but it's not the only one they have to make.
-
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images Bashir’s Choice
The brutal means that the Sudanese president has used to keep his country together have instead blown it apart in the most chaotic way possible.
-
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Lift One from the Gipper
Tim Pawlenty has the Reaganite foreign policy talking points down, but do they add up to anything?
-
Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images Let’s Make a Deal
The United States and the Taliban should be able to work out a compromise on Afghanistan. But will the Afghans be able to live with it?
