Regardless of what does or doesn’t happen on the ground as a result of this week’s resolutions and deliberations, only Israel and the United States will lose out. It didn’t have to be this way.
Long-term success in Afghanistan requires a shift in focus from clearing the ground to domestic institution-building and regional relationship management.
The need for intervention in Somalia to halt the advances of al-Shabaab has become only clearer during the devastating famine destroying the Horn of Africa.
