You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "Obama squared," a more extreme version of the same thing.

The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European countries as well as in countries like South Korea, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia. However, if possible, the use of force is something to avoid except in cases where genocide is threatened, like Bosnia or Libya or with regimes that threaten our security, like the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.