On his Latin American "overthrow Venezuela" tour, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hammered China, accusing it of "prolonging" the regime by continuing to trade and invest with the Maduro government. The Chinese shot back at him over the preposterous claim, wondering...
A little more than a decade ago, I was asked to address a London dinner-table of about twenty Gulf “figures” – a mix of Ambassadors and those with “ties to power”. All represented the cosmopolitan, rich élite of the Gulf. Then, towards the evening’s end, talk turned...
I recently spoke to some college students who, I realized, were in fifth grade when I got on a plane to Iraq. They now study that stuff in history classes like “Opportunities and Errors: 21st-Century America in the Middle East.” About halfway through our conversation,...