Author: David Donadio
By David Donadio • 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 David Donadio • 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 David Donadio • 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 David Donadio • 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 David Donadio • 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 David Donadio • 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: