syria
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U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford has for years chosen to live in Baltimore when stateside. He has embraced the city's culture and character, which fit his personality far better than Washington ever could. - Critics have been too quick to dismiss the importance of Syria cease-fire
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- The Obama administration's stated rationale for opposing an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites is weak; could domestic politics be the real reason?
- Ordinary citizens with cell phones are allowing the world to see what's happening in Syria
- I'll be on that panel - Other topics include Santorum, Syria coverage
- The Assad regime may ultimately be done in by cadres of citizen journalists bearing witness to their country's struggle against tyranny
- Important things are happening in the world, but you wouldn't know it from the political right who only want to see events through anti-Obama glasses
- Despite lip service to democracy, the international community prefers the predictability of the status quo in Syria over the uncertainty of a successful uprising there
- Defense cuts: Pentagon expert Michael O'Hanlon says that in an age of austerity, the U.S. needs a military framework that's less ambitious but more flexible and realistic
- Syrian President Bashar Assad's recent interview with ABC's Barbara Walters denying he had any role in the killing of thousands of demonstrators protesting his rule is evidence he is either delusional or thinks the rest of us are
- Arab Spring: U.S. failure to denounce punishment of those who cared for Bahrain protesters is shameful
- Our mission of planting seeds of democracy throughout the region has been accomplished; if Iraq's democratically elected leaders now want us out, we should respect their decision and go
- America should stop spending trillions to police the planet and use the money to improve conditions here at home
- Syrian President Bashar Assad will continue slaughtering his people for as long as he thinks he can get away with it
- Maryland Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett and others are correct to question President Obama's use of military force in Libya
- What will be the U.S. response to Syria's crimes against humanity
- America's Middle East adventures have been too expensive and unproductive .
- Even pro-democracy Arab demonstrators harbor a visceral hatred of Israel
- The president put the Israeli-Palestinian conflict squarely in the context of the revolution sweeping the Arab world
- U.S., Israel should not hesitate to support ouster of Assad, who has done little to promote peace in the region
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- The quick fall of dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt hasn't caused the rapid fall of other regimes that many hoped for; under the circumstances, the Obama administration's wait-and-see approach may be the only viable option.