Let Turkey and Armenia Work Out Their Differences

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Armenian President Serzh Sargsian and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Davos. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that the administration is reconsidering President Obama’s campaign promise to declare that the Armenians were victims of a genocide during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire nearly one hundred years ago.

Heading Home: Miami to DC

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Many thanks to friends and fellow bloggers at TWN for covering for me this last week as I was away traveling and offline. I am back in Miami today — heading back to Washington, DC this morning. More soon.

Afghanistan Escalators Need to Provide Strategic Rationale

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(Photo credit: Army.mil’s photostream) Max Boot, Frederick Kagan, and Kimberly Kagan argue in today’s New York Times that we cannot afford to “lose” Afghanistan and suggest a number of tactical changes to our operations there. Their argument contains three major flaws.