Trudy Rubin’s Worldview column runs on Wednesdays and Sundays. In the past five years she has visited Iraq nine times and has also written from Iran, Pakistan, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, China and South Korea
Army is not focused on the jihadi threat.
When a suicide car bomb killed scores of people at the gate of the Indian Embassy in Kabul this week, the shock waves reached Washington.
There has been a flurry of speculation in Washington about whether President Bush will authorize an attack on Iran's nuclear sites before his term ends.
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Whenever I am trying to get a glimpse of what's happening at street level in Baghdad, I call my friend Abbas.
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Dick Cheney was angry. He was answering questions at a meeting of foreign-policy experts in Washington last week. Then he got a query about the U.S. decision to delist North Korea from the terrorism blacklist.
- S. Africa's Mbeki props up Zimbabwe's murderous Mugabe.The incredible drama in Zimbabwe is about more than a defiant dictator, Robert Mugabe, who has tortured and murdered his political opponents to avoid election defeat on Friday.
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Last week, I wrote about an issue that is just under the radar in the election campaign, but is bound to ignite soon.
- But events have made them an endangered species in the Middle East.As Islamists continue to gain strength throughout the Middle East, many Americans ask: "Where are the Arab moderates?" For an answer, I recommend an important new book called The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation, written by one of the most thoughtful analysts in the region, former Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher, who played a key role in drafting the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and the Middle East "road map" backed by the White House.
- The surge's success is emboldening Iraqi thinking on a U.S. withdrawal.A debate is heating up inside Iraq - and inside Washington - that will shape America's relationship with Iraq under the next president.
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The most urgent foreign policy problem that the next U.S. president will face won't be Iraq. Nor will it be Iran.
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In 2000, a Republican presidential candidate with no foreign policy experience answered critics by touting his team of eminent advisers.
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Every day when I sit down at my desk, I look straight at the Tankman. The Tankman is the unbelievably brave Chinese man who stood before a line of tanks near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, as the Chinese government moved to crush pro-democracy demonstrators in June 1989.
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No matter the divide between presidential candidates on Iraq, here's an idea they all can endorse. It's a wise, very relevant Iraqi proposal that cuts across U.S. debates about stay or leave and beams in on Iraq's future. Moreover, it's doable.
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