Terms of Engagement
List of Terms of Engagement articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Indispensable Nation’s Indispensable Weapon
Obama can't live without drones, Pakistan can't live with 'em. So the president bowed to the Islamic street.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Plumbers
This time, a secretive president has gone too far.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Out With It
Americans deserve to hear the dirty secrets of the CIA’s war on terror. We’ll all be better off with the truth.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Slouching Toward Damascus
In Syria's implosion, Secretary of State John Kerry already faces a defining task. How hard is he prepared to push against Obama's weary realism?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The One-Man Show
Secretary of State John Kerry thinks he can singlehandedly solve the world's most intractable problems. But will President Obama even let him try?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 For Shame
Why don't Americans care more about torture?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Limits of Leading by Example
President Global Zero is learning the hard way that cutting back America’s nuclear weapons arsenal doesn't cut the mustard with rogue states.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Pit of Despair
In the streets of Pakistan, people have had it about up to here. For the Obama administration’s diminished goals there, maybe that’s not a bad thing.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The African Century
The unlucky continent finally seems to be on a real path to growth, but is democracy essential to sustain Africa’s rise?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Pick a Secular Pope
Could the U.N. benefit from a little white smoke?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Lost in the Desert
What does the Obama administration make of Egypt's Mohamed Morsy? Not much. But they've still got to figure out how to work with him.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Not to Repair a Broken Pot
The lesson of Iraq isn't that American intervention only makes things worse; it's that there's a smarter way to do it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Country Unto Itself
There’s no place like India. Which is precisely why its politics and economy are such a contradictory, beautiful mess.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Return of the Gandhis
In the new India, everything is moving a mile a minute. Except politics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Terrible Twos
Can Washington prevent the turbulent Arab Spring countries from going the way of the post-Soviet states?
