Terms of Engagement
List of Terms of Engagement articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A New ‘New Beginning’
What Barack Obama should tell the world in his Asia speech.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Unnecessary War
Afghanistan used to be the central front in the war against terrorism. Now it's a distraction from it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Spectacle of the Society
France's half-century social-spending spree is coming to an end -- and Nicolas Sarkozy is stuck holding the bag.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All Roads Lead to Istanbul
Turkey is more popular now than it has been since the Ottoman Empire. But can it please all of its new friends at the same time?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Lebanon Was Lost
A former U.S. ally under Bush's Freedom Agenda, the country is now being neglected in the name of "engagement" with Syria -- and the results could be disastrous.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Long Road Ahead in Pakistan
If Obama wants to make progress, he needs to give up on making it overnight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Wallowing in Decline
Americans have gone from gloating over their global influence to bemoaning the loss of it. They were wrong then, and they're wrong now.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Bashir Insanity
Team Obama has just offered Sudan's genocidal tyrant one last olive branch. A hickory switch might work better.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Darkness and Light
Barack Obama promised to end "the color-coded politics of fear." But we're still living in the shadows.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Judgment Day for Rwanda
Paul Kagame is proving to be a pliant Western ally. But a shocking new U.N. report shows why the Rwandan president can no longer claim to be a victim -- and it's time to hold him accountable.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mixed Irish Blessing
Obama's peace negotiator thinks his success in Northern Ireland should give us hope in the Middle East. But does the analogy really hold?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Georgia Syndrome
Two years after a disastrous war, Tbilisi is booming, but Georgians remain on edge, for one overriding reason: They're not sure Barack Obama loves them enough.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Two Obamas
It's too early to call the U.S. president a foreign-policy failure. But he does need to figure out what kind of global leader he wants to be.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Documents of Mass Destruction
So what if the WikiLeaks revelations aren't the Pentagon Papers redux? They still do deep damage to President Obama's case for continuing the war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Good Night, Ban Ki-Moon
The U.N. secretary-general must go.
