Luke Johnson

Time for a no-fly zone in Libya

Egypt and Tunisia made ending authoritarian regimes by peaceful protest look easy--two governments that had a seemingly limitless grip on power abdicated within a matter of days. Sadly, these uprisings are very much the exception to the rule with...

Dick Lugar hasn't changed, the GOP has

Both the New York Times and Politico front pages lead with stories about how isolated Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) is over his support for the ratification of the START Treaty. "Charting His Own Course Against Prevailing Winds,"...

When Ahmed met Sally

Both former Washington Post religion writer Sally Quinn and Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi have almost nothing in common except for both being made in Washington. Quinn had never written anything when she was interviewed for a job at the...

A symbolic end to the war isn't an end to war at all

IT WASN'T A victory speech. Those were the first words that President Obama spoke tonight at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Tex., "It’s not going to be a victory lap. It’s not going...

An attack on Iran?

I don't want Iran to become a nuclear power. I also don't think an air strike by Israel or the United States on its nuclear facilities would be successful. I think the consequences from the second...

The War Logs paint a bleak, vivid picture of the Afghan War

Wikileaks leaked over 90,000 records to the New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel on the War in Afghanistan with detail rarely seen in news reports. A cursory look at the doucments reveals that the sentiments are things...

10 Alleged deep-cover Russian spies arrested

The FBI announced yesterday that it broke up a Russian spy network of 10 spies allegedly trying to "Americanize" themselves for long-term operations to gain information about U.S. policymaking. If you were moaning the end...

Why hasn't Guantánamo been closed?

President Obama campaigned on closing the Guantánamo Bay prison and signed an executive order two days after taking office ordering the prison to be closed within a year. The prison remains open 1 1/2 years after that...

Exit McChrystal, enter Petraeus

The pope of counterinsurgency, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, was defrocked but God replaced him. That would be General David Petraeus.In doing so, President Obama pulled a typically...

Despite lithium "discovery," Afghanistan remains unwinnable

A New York Times story Monday detailing the newly-discovered $1 trillion wealth of "untapped mineral deposits" in Afghanistan "according to senior American government officials" seemed almost too good to be true in what was...

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