I don't have time today to write anything substantive about yesterday's meeting between Obama and Netanyahu -- more later. But I did want to mention that the headlines across virtually all the Arab papers have the same basic message: Obama backs...

While all the world’s eyes were on Iran, I spent the last week or so with Brian Katulis (of the Center for American Progress) in Jersualem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Tel Aviv. We met with more than three dozen people, including Palestinian,...

 I have a short op-ed in the New York Times this morning, part of a roundtable on Obama's July 2011 timeline for the Afghan escalation.  It's pretty cool to be in a group with Ahmed Rashid and my CNAS colleague Nate Fick.  Since it's so short,...

The heavy focus on al Qaeda in the new AfPak strategy could complicate America's broader strategy of strategic public engagement with the Muslim world. The politics of the focus make perfect domestic sense, as Obama -- quite effectively, in a...

Turkish Prime Minister Recip Erdogan is in Washington, D.C. for meetings with American officials and a number of public and private appearances along the DC circuit. Unfortunately I'm too snowed under with work to actually go to any of them -- but I...

The new Pew survey on American attitudes on foreign policy is, as usual, full of interesting findings and trends.  The headline finding is that in the midst of recession and war-weariness, the public expresses more restrained and "isolationist" views...

I watched Obama's speech last night with a heavy heart.  The President impressed, as always -- from the lofty rhetoric to the detailed, logical analysis (and the direct talk to the Afghan people, a nice touch also used in his big Iraq speech so many...