Center for Strategic Communication

Zapping Syria: Don’t Do It, Mr. President

By Patricia Lee Sharpe For years you have been smart enough not to be drawn into the Red Line trap vis-à-vis Iran, despite Israel’s incessant demands that you draw that line in the sand. And then! You foolishly boxed yourself in, publically drawing a Red Line re Syria...

Iconoclasts in Timbuktu

By Patricia Lee SharpeNot so long ago Buddhists and art lovers of the world were aghast when the Afghan Taliban destroyed the famous Buddhist statues in Bamiyan. I thought of this tragedy when I learned that  Salafist gangs known as the Ansar Dine (Defenders of Islam)...

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The U.S. and Pakistan Have Found Detente, but It Won’t Last Joshua Foust/ The Atlantic The transactional U.S.-Pakistan alliance means that, once the Afghan War ends, so will their incentive to get along.   Robert Zoellick:”Getting Stuff Done” at the...