Terminal Velocity
I am a retired foreign service officer and ambassador and have been a lecturer on foreign affairs at the University of Washington since 2017. I am a political progressive and a strong advocate for restraint in American foreign and security policy.
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The Inverse Logic of American “Protection”
US Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy
The Pentagon is currently considering potential consolidation and reduction options for U.S. forces in Europe, part of a six-month review labeled “NATO 3.0” and led by DoD Under Secretary for Policy El...
The Debilitating Caveat
The Steady State
Make America Yesterday Again
Trump promises to restore an America that no longer exists. But the America he wants to recover was built for a different economy, a different technology, a different world, and a different st...
Lost in Zeros
I often get the impression that many, many Americans - perhaps most - don’t really understand the world at all. They don’t understand science, they don’t understand economics, they don’t understand foreign affairs. I often doubt whether the...
Jenga or Restraint?
Foreign leaders and policy makers increasingly need to grapple with an America that is growing weaker and weaker while at the same time behaving ever more belligerently. Both wittingly and witlessly, the United States has become the most di...
Formative Years
I have often said that spending December 1973 in Pakistan changed my life. My parents sent me to accompany a friend, Barbra, who was visiting her family at a mission clinic north of Rawalpindi. I had just turned 15. After that, I was hooked...
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