Author: David Donadio

By Oct 28,2008

No silver bullets

James Goldgeier thinks a President Obama would have just as tough a go of it as a President McCain would: “There is an expectation by the Europeans that Barack Obama...

By Oct 28,2008

Faith no more

The Christian Science Monitor will stop printing daily. After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher...

By Oct 28,2008

From bad to worse

There’s a difference between bad and worse. To me, Sonny’s historical perspective reads like: Gaza was a hellhole, anyway, so why not bring Hamas to power? The Iranians have been...

By Oct 28,2008

Consequences

I’d like to belabor this, at least a little, because the difference in our conceptions of how to protect our people is the difference between a foreign policy that works...

By Oct 27,2008

Simple, elegant and wrong

Sonny’s right about the applications of plausible deniability in the war on terrorism. The trouble is that “plausible” part. It’s one thing when a senior Syrian security official gets stabbed...

By Oct 26,2008

8 years later

Ordinarily, this would fall flat on its face, but these guys have accomplished a rare feat: repeating history first as farce, and second as tragedy: