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New Atlanticist

Oct 16, 2007

Turkey Genocide Resolution Does Unneeded Harm

By Frederick Kempe

There’s plenty of blame to go around for the most-irresponsible, self-defeating and short-sighted congressional foreign policy action of this year. Start with Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, President George W. Bush and the Turks themselves. The issue in question is last week’s decision by the House Foreign Affairs Committee […]

Turkey

New Atlanticist

Oct 2, 2007

Ahmadinejad Dinner’s Main Course Is All Image

By Frederick Kempe

The questions I had scribbled in my notebook, going into what would become a three-hour dinner meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were key to knowing how dangerous he might be. 1) How much power does he have? 2) Is he as deranged as his rhetoric would suggest? Behind the first question was whether he […]

Iran

New Atlanticist

Sep 24, 2007

Putin Staying Put to Lead Russian Reassertion

By Frederick Kempe

In the past year, Russian President Vladimir Putin has morphed from a noisy irritant to the West who was reaching the end of his two-term limit to a swaggering antagonist who isn’t going away. At least that’s the view of senior Bush administration officials, who increasingly see Russia as a rising strategic challenge. They fear […]

Russia
Iraq

New Atlanticist

Sep 5, 2007

Iraq War Squabbling Squanders an Opportunity

By Frederick Kempe

September offers a unique opportunity for a turning point on Iraq. OK, before you roll your eyes and stop reading, we aren’t talking about a turning point IN Iraq — that will take more than President George W. Bush’s Labor Day outing in Anbar Province or the rat-a-tat of expert reports and congressional testimony over […]

Iraq

New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2007

Turkey Is Central on World War IV’s Frontline

By Frederick Kempe

For those who argue that Sept. 11 plunged the U.S. and the West into World War IV, a long struggle against militant Islam, this has been a dark summer. Yet a Muslim-oriented party’s sweeping parliamentary victory in democratic Turkey provides hope in a strategic place, provided Europe, the U.S. and the Turks themselves don’t squander […]

Turkey