Politico: "Gates Is the Most Influential Member of the Cabinet, Bar None"

The Danger of an Start-the-Exit Date

The Day After: A Hollow Withdrawal Pledge Comes Into Focus

Mysteries of the AfPak Strategy, Chapt I

Obama: No Dithering

Three Years and Out of Afghanistan [Update: Not]

White House Officials Clarify Talk of Three Year Time Line in Afghanistan

What About Afghan Women?

MoveOn vs. Obama

Bye Bye, Dubai

Karzai's Fall

Three Big Questions About Obama's Afghanistan Plan

What He Said

Trouble for Zardari Means Trouble for Obama

Realism in Afghanistan

Obama's One Conceivable Foreign Policy Victory: It's Honduras. But He Won't Acknowledge It. Too Bad.

Whack-a-Mole in Pakistan

How Many Foreign Ministers Did *You* Speak to on Thanksgiving?

"Train Crash in Russia Caused by Bomb"

Dubai Collapses, the Markets All Fall Down, and I Gloat