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Foreign interventions always end badly.
It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.
Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.
Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.
Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.
Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.
The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.
Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.
Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.
New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.
Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.
Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.
One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact.
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.
When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam.
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
For decades, Turkey was widely viewed as a reliable NATO ally: prickly at times, but safely in America's corner.
The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.
The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.
The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.
Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.
Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.
During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.
In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.
With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.
No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.
To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more!
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.
As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.
In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.
If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.
The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.