Author: Damir Marusic

By Sep 12,2008

These people…

The Telegraph reports on conversations between David Miliband and Sergei Lavrov: The Daily Telegraph can disclose that Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, reacted with fury when Mr Miliband and...

By Sep 11,2008

"No Victory"

It’s refreshing to see that intelligent people dealing with facts on the ground in Iraq—like David Petraeus—dismiss “victory” talk as too simplistic. It’s a shame that the Republican party, traditionally...

By Sep 11,2008

NATO Expansion Follies, Part ∞

ABC releases some snippets of the Palin interview: GIBSON: Would you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine in NATO? PALIN: Ukraine, definitely, yes. Yes, and Georgia. GIBSON: Because Putin has said...

By Sep 09,2008

What Kosovo Gets Us

A badly fractured (far right, pro-Russian) Radical Party in Serbia. Yes, the Bush Administration approached Kosovo’s recognition reflexively and without much forethought. But in this case, their decision seems to...

By Sep 05,2008

NATO's Paper Tiger

Frank Fukuyama asks all the right questions about our foolish Georgia policy over at The American Interest‘s blog. (Full disclosure: my other job is at AI.) If Cheney and McCain...