washingtonpost.com - David Ignatius -- Washington Post Columnist (washingtonpost.com)David Ignatius writes about international affairs and U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post op-ed page.Mideast Openings- March 30, 2008 The Bush administration is coming to a crunch point soon in the two biggest conflicts in the Middle East -- the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate and the struggle to create a stable Iraq. In each case, we can see the limits of military power in combating the "bad guys" who the administration believes are obstructing the path to peace.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032802819.html?nav=r... 'Roboburgh' Rising- March 27, 2008 ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- The next round in the Democratic Party's presidential slugfest will be fought April 22 in Pennsylvania's "rust belt," in places like this old manufacturing city on the Lehigh River. And given the mounting economic worries here and across the country, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will be talking about the future more as a threat than as an opportunity.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/26/AR2008032602914.html?nav=r... A Ticking Clock on N. Korea- March 23, 2008 For many months, Bush administration officials have been imagining a valedictory conclusion to their long-running negotiations with North Korea: Pyongyang would make a "complete and correct declaration" about its nuclear program, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would travel to North Korea to celebrate normalization of relations with a former member of the "axis of evil."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102555.html?nav=r... What if The Fed Fails- March 19, 2008 The Federal Reserve decided last weekend in the inferno of the financial crisis that Wall Street's major players -- even a smallish and brutish one, Bear Stearns -- are too big to fail. So the Fed is pumping all-but-unlimited amounts of all-but-free money into the financial system to keep it operating despite the Wall Street bank run.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802595.html?nav=r... |