Author: Damir Marusic
By Damir Marusic • 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 Damir Marusic • 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 Damir Marusic • 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 Damir Marusic • 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 Damir Marusic • 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...