Britain and France Want to Act on Libya, Will the US Lead? WASHINGTON– Paddy Ashdown , former British Liberal-Democratic leader and former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina between...
Europe Will Not Act on Libya, US Slow: Has The West Any Resolve? WASHINGTON – Regarding what Europe is doing about the crisis in Libya, if it were not for...
What Will America Do to Make Gaddafi Go? WASHINGTON– After having declared in starkly clear terms that “Gaddafi has got go”, what is Washington going...
Gaddafi Is Defiant, America Too Quiet From CNN: “Plea to the World, Help Us in Tripoli” –A Libyan Woman calling in, asking for...
NATO At 60: Not Much Reason for Celebration WASHINGTON – Quite a long time ago, while in London, I happened to walk in St. James’s Park at...
Europe’s “Soft Power” and the Georgia Crisis WASHINGTON– The way Europe is handling the Russian invasion of Georgia, (including the disturbing corollary of a possible unilateral...
April 4 is NATO’s Birthday The Europeans do very little for the common defense. Is there still a role for the Atlantic Alliance created in 1949? By Paolo von Schirach April 3, 2008 WASHINGTON – Tomorrow is April 4, another birthday for the North Atlantic Treaty...
Europe and World Threats WASHINGTON – “We must not –we cannot—become a two-tiered alliance of those willing to fight and those who are...