North Korea: Spyware vs. Spyware

Posted by on Jan 31, 2015 in Articles, Featured, Korea, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The cyberattack on Sony Pictures last month was a classic whodunit. The FBI, playing the role of Sherlock Holmes, visited the virtual crime scene, gathered up the evidence, and tried to piece together the motives of the potential culprits. As a result of the FBI investigation, the Obama administration declared that North Korea was the instigator. The U.S. government claimed to have irrefutable...
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Special Guest Star: Bibi!

Posted by on Jan 29, 2015 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments You know that a TV show has hit a bad stretch when the producers bring in a controversial guest star to boost ratings. A reality show about a two-year-old beauty pageant star is tanking in the ratings? Bring in Sarah Palin to serve as her life coach. Saturday Night Live on a long spiral downward? Invite Anthony Wiener to host — or better yet, Kim Jong Eun. If Congress were a TV show, it would...
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Why 2014 Wasn’t So Terrible

Posted by on Jan 8, 2015 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments In bidding farewell to 2014, most of us gave the year a swift kick in the rear end as it exited the calendar. On foreign policy in particular, few people had nice things to say about the recently departed. After all, it was a banner year for all manner of evils. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa dominated the headlines, and the trumped-up fear of the disease’s spread to the United States even...
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Carrots for Cuba, Sticks for North Korea

Posted by on Jan 7, 2015 in Articles, Featured, Korea, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Cuba and North Korea share a great deal in common. They are both led by dynastic rulers. They retain their nominal affiliation to revolutionary Communism. They suffer under U.S. embargoes that have been in place for decades. And although they registered significant economic and social progress in the 1960s, they have become increasingly impoverished as a result of their isolation from the global...
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America Held Hostage

Posted by on Dec 11, 2014 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The United States recently conducted a raid in Yemen to free an American hostage. The raid failed. The Navy Seals killed 11 people, including a 10-year-old boy. The kidnappers executed the hostage, journalist Luke Somers. They also killed South African teacher Pierre Korkie. The South African was on the verge of being released as part of a hostage negotiation that the U.S. government didn’t...
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Kobane: Hunger Strikes and Air Strikes

Posted by on Nov 14, 2014 in Articles, Featured, Security, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Moustafa Mohamad has been consuming nothing but Gatorade for more than two weeks as he stands at the traffic overpass at Dupont Circle and tries to get the attention of passersby, the news media, and the Washington powerbrokers. He is fasting for Kobane, the Syrian Kurdish town near the Turkish border. Kurdish fighters and Free Syrian Army rebels are currently locked in a fight with the Islamic...
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