<![CDATA[ - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/rss/archive/15790.xml Author <![CDATA[On the Road to Putinlandia]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600 The meeting was scheduled for that very evening—the evening before the Minsk summit this week—in Petro Poroshenko’s office at the presidential palace in Kiev.

But the moment my colleague Gilles Hertzog and I arrive at the Kiev airport and step on the tarmac, my phone rings.

]]> <![CDATA[It's Not Too Late for Us to Save Libya]]> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500 In the spring of 2011, for the few foreigners present on the terra incognita that was Libya at the time, there was no doubt. Tanks were closing in on Benghazi. The inhabitants of Misrata, besieged and starving, expected to perish. The entire country hung under the threat of the rivers of blood promised by Gaddafi’s son.

The international community had two options.

]]> <![CDATA[Implications of Gaddafi's Gory End]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Those Images of his corpse. That face, still alive but bloodied, hounded, and taunted. That bare head—suddenly and oddly bare! We were used to seeing him in turbans, and there was something poignant in the denuding that renders this criminal strangely pitiable.

You can say that the man was a monster. You can replay again and again the scenes that for eight months have haunted the friends of free Libya—the images of mass executions, torture, the hangings of April 7, the prisoners who were sort of buried alive until released from their prisons by the revolution—these and so many other victims...]]> <![CDATA[Libya Wins One for Freedom]]> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500 We've heard it all!

They were getting bogged down in this war.

]]> <![CDATA[DSK Must Be Given Back His Honor]]> Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500

The Strauss-Kahn affair is not over.

For it to be over, the American system of justice must pursue its investigation and work to the very end.           

If it’s truly to be over, Dominique Strauss-Kahn must be granted not only his freedom, but—even more importantly—restoration of his honor.

In other words, “the Strauss-Kahn affair” will continue to be regarded as such as long as it hasn’t been clearly established that there never was any affair at all—and...]]> <![CDATA[Gadhafi Shows His True Colors]]> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 WSJ.com is available in the following editions and languages:

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