Afghanistan Strategy Not Working – Counter Insurgency Effort Too Vast, Under Resourced – Refocus On Counter Terror, Reduce US Forces By Paolo von Schirach January 22, 2012 WASHINGTON – What Imran Khan, former cricket star and now...
Sudden Swing For Gingrich In South Carolina Shows How Voters Without Deep Convictions Change Their Minds In Just Days – Opinion Changed On The Basis Of TV Debates Performances – It Is All About Clever Delivery And No Substance – Primaries As TV Wrestling? By Paolo von Schirach January 21, 2012 WASHINGTON – What is surprising about the decisive victory by...
Republican TV Debates About National Security Are Just Silly Posturing – Huntsman Is The Only Sensible Candidate Big words about bombing Iran and militarizing the border with Mexico. But nothing about the US end game in Afghanistan or the threat of an unstable Iraq. Sound bite TV political debates are a poor way to have a national conversation By Paolo von Schirach November 24, 2011 WASHINGTON – The Republicans fighting for the GOP presidential nomination want...
The Revolution in Egypt Got Coverage – The Dogged Syrians Who Keep Protesting Against a Worse Dictator, With More Than 1300 Killed, Get Little Attention – Yet their Bravery is Immense By Paolo von Schirach July 16, 2011 WASHINGTON– Why is it that the Cairo Tahrir Square protests...