by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Apr 11, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Hopes were high a few years ago. The Arab street—that’s working people as well as the educated middle class—was waking up and demanding a better shake. Throwing off well-founded fears of brutal retaliation, thousands of people gathered...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 30, 2016 | Monitor
[ Last week, Zen hosted Pete Turner’s guest post, PRT and State Department Ignorance Fails Us All. Here is part 2 of that article — posted by Charles Cameron for Zen ] . ** Last week I wrote about the tragedy of Anne Smedinghoff, who died on a patrol in...
by zen | Mar 25, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / a.k.a “zen“] The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House […] by Zalmay Khalilzad Just received a courtesy review copy of The Envoy, the memoir of Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, from Christine at St. Martin’s Press. Khalilzad...
by zen | Mar 21, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / “zen“] Anne Smedinghoff ZP is pleased to bring you a guest post by Pete Turner, co-host of The Break it Down Show and is an advocate of better, smarter, transition operations. Turner has...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jan 22, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe For the most part, the Republicans (including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan) listened to the President’s State of the Union speech with stony faces. Many frowned throughout. During his quite eloquent remarks there were a number of points at...