Is it fair to conclude yet that Hamid Karzai has given up caring about the way he’s viewed in NATO capitols? On Thursday, frustrated with parliament’s reluctance to bless his brazen bid to control an independent elections watchdog, he delivers a paranoid and undignified harangue about the West’s secret machinations to control a country that [...]

Shots. FIRED.

Maybe this will sharpen the point made in this post. You’ve seen Robert Kagan and Mitt Romney wail and lament President Obama’s rather meager pressures on Israel to get the Netanyahu government to demonstrate its commitment to a negotiated two-state solution. They extrapolate from that case  and a misreading of last year’s missile defense restructuring [...]