Preparing for Defeat in Afghanistan
Instead of internationalizing the war effort or learning from previous counterinsurgencies, the United States will abandon Afghanistan.
Nick Ottens
Nick Ottens is a public affairs officer for the Dutch Animal Coalition and a board member for Liberal Green, the sustainability network of the Dutch liberal party VVD. He is a former political risk consultant and a former research manager for XPRIZE, where he designed prize competitions to incentivize breakthrough innovation in agriculture, food and health care. He has also worked as a journalist in Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York for EUobserver, NRC, Trouw, World Politics Review and Wynia’s Week, among others.
America’s Spirit Invincible; China’s Still Puzzling
America stages large military exercises with South Korea while China’s views on the North are unclear.
Cameron on the Special Relationship
The British leader dismisses his nation’s endless preoccupation with the health of the transatlantic relationship.
NATO Allies Weary About Future Afghan Mission
Skepticism about the war effort in Afghanistan is mounting.
Are We Still Friends?
Doubts about President Barack Obama’s commitment to the old continent are growing.
Financial Reform Would Have Prevented Crisis: Frank
Yet the bill doesn’t mention the two entities that caused the housing bubble.
It’s All the Republicans’ Fault
President Barack Obama lambasted Republicans for making a stand “on the backs of the unemployed” to extend current tax rates.
Yemen’s Two Different, Dangerous Wars
Yemen’s government hasn’t focused on Al Qaeda, rather a separatist insurgency.
Speaking Up for American Capitalism
Amid all the anticapitalist rhetoric espoused by policy and opinion makers alike, few businessmen dare rise up to the challenge and defend the free market outright. Gregg Sherrill, Chairman and CEO of Tenneco, Inc. is a notable exception. With capitalism under persecution worldwide, the business community has in part itself to blame. As accusations of […]
Newt Gingrich for President?
The former speaker of the House is considering a presidential bid.
South Asia’s Fragile Nuclear Balance
The paradigm shaping foreign policy in Washington DC today reads that the futures of Afghanistan and Pakistan are inherently intertwined. The war in the one cannot be resolved as long as insurgents are able to find safe haven in the other while regional stability demands peace across borders. Yet in Pakistan the Americans have to […]
Obama’s Disastrous Energy Policy
Obama insists that drilling “cannot come close” to meeting America’s energy needs.
Turkey’s Irrelevant Islamism
Commentators feared a radical backlash when Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became prime minister.
On Tax Relief and Deficit Reduction
Democrats don’t understand how Republicans can favor tax cuts while they claim to worry about the deficit.
The Afghan Silk Route: A Pipe Dream?
Afghanistan, situated in the heart of Asia, has for centuries been pivotal to international transport and trade. The argument is made today that for Afghanistan to prosper, it has to reinvent itself as the hub of a modern day “Silk Route” connecting Europe, the Middle East, India and East Asia. The future of Afghanistan, once […]