We Have a Dog in the Fight – Freedom
The winds of change are blowing once again — this time in the Middle East. When British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made his historic 1960 “Winds of Change” speech in Cape Town about the continent...
View ArticleAlien vs Predator: The Face-Off Between Hezbollah and Al Qaeda
From my piece in today’s Daily Beast: “The Lebanese have been fearful ever since the civil war erupted next door in Syria that it would spread to their nation and trigger communal fighting within their...
View ArticleISIS Threatens Syrian Rebel Supply Lines From Turkey
Islamic extremists overran three towns in northern Syria this weekend, capturing them from Western-backed Free Syrian Army rebels and Islamist brigades as Syrian warplanes struck widely across the...
View ArticleAssad Offensives Seek to Stretch Rebels
Gaziantep, Turkey My latest dispatch for VOA explores what is happening on the ground in Syria as Assad offensives unfold with Russian air support. Militia commanders say they suspect the strategy of...
View ArticleRealism and Syria
An interesting New Yorker look at Obama thinking on Syria and the so-called “realist” school of foreign policy. And John Cassidy has some clear-eyed perceptions, including this: “Safeguarding the...
View ArticleWar, Refugees And Munich
Gaziantep The news gets bleaker: at Munich the West appears to have fallen into a Russian trap, it seems to me. And Syrians can see that the Russian/regime noose is not only being tightened on Aleppo...
View ArticleCan the Rebels Hold On in Aleppo?
From my dispatch today for VOA: “The huge Assad assault — regime reinforcements were sent to the city this weekend in what Damascus calls a ‘decisive final battle’ — is testing not only the endurance...
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