The Islamist Ennahda party has come in second in Tunisia’s first full parliamentary elections under its new constitution. Islamism isn’t about to disappear, but Tunisia has turned out to be the only success story of the Arab Spring.
India’s purchase of an Israeli anti-tank missile system says a lot about the warming relations between the two countries, and it also shows that India is cautious to get too far into bed with the U.S. on defense.
The top U.S. commander in South Korea warned that the north might have nuclear warheads to put on top of its missiles, disagreeing with the President’s assessment. If he’s right, U.S. strategy in Asia just got a whole lot more complicated.
The children’s refugee “crisis” on the U.S.-Mexico border is but a symptom of the real crisis: denial and cowardice among U.S. politicians of both parties.
The ACA has been underwhelming—in terms of enrollment, access to care, cost control, and health outcomes. Even those who support the law should be honest enough to admit that, at least so far, it has not been as successful as President Obama predicted.
John Allen, the White House’s point man on countering ISIS, has said that taking Damascus is not a part of U.S. strategy. Our Sunni allies think otherwise, and they won’t be happy to hear this.
Nigeria doesn’t share Syria’s experience with state-building, which will make dealing with Boko Haram in some ways more difficult than dealing with ISIS, even if the latter is a more direct threat to the West. That’s likely to have costs—and not only for Nigeria.
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