Occupation: Diplomat Birth: 1947
The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with thes….
The NATO alliance is not just a transactional relationship, once again. That alliance serves our interests. That alliance has been critical to keepin….
I know that presidents often have really bad phone conversations. What they usually don't do is go out and talk about it. That gets to my point about….
There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark….
At the end of the day, it is what Donald Trump does or doesn't do as crises come up and as he tries to advance his agenda. He can hurt it on the marg….
Optimism is in short supply in the Middle East, but what I do think is the administration needs to step up its act. We should use military strikes ag….
Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking….
NATO is in our national security interests. And, yes, we pay a lot for it, but, when we had Afghanistan, NATO troops were by our side from almost all….
As a longtime career guy, I like quiet diplomacy behind closed doors. This is not what we're getting with Donald Trump. At the end of the day, it's w….
I'm concerned about Donald Trump's relationship with Russia that ignores Russia's aggressiveness in its near abroad. I'm concerned about the willingn….