Five Strategies for The U.S. in Syria
WASHINGTON In the western media’s telling, the civil war in Syria began and continues as a morality play, good versus evil, and for good reason. The regime headed for nearly a decade and a half by Bashar al-Assad has pursued policies of...
The Folly of Sanctions
WASHINGTON—Playing in theaters across the United States is a film called “Upside Down,” about an alternate universe where twin worlds sit stacked like bread in a sandwich, separated by opposite gravities. If our world could somehow have...
The Oracle of Thailand
BANGKOK—Imagine for a minute that Hillary Clinton is elected President of the United States in 2016. Imagine that within days of being sworn into office, there are widespread rumors that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, is actually...
Hacking A Path Between China’s California and Myanmar’s Dracula
MANDALAY—Reading the news that the Chinese army systematically hacked into United States computer networks brought to mind another group of soldiers who engaged in an entirely different kind of hacking here seven decades ago: Merrill’s...
