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  1. Bouazizi for Time's Person of the Year

    Appeared in The Mark News Time magazine’s Person of the Year has been an annual tradition since 1927. Winners have been peacemakers (Gandhi and Martin Luther King) and warmongers (Hitler), heroes (Churchill) and villains (Stalin), liberators (Eisenhower) ...

  2. Old Approach to Piracy May be the Best Approach

    Appeared in the National Post The recent operation by NATO forces to free the crew of Italian ship MV Montecristo from pirates serves as a reminder that this ancient plague of the seas remains a threat to global commerce—and that the West’s response to ...

  3. For Libya, Now Comes the Hard Part

    Appeared in the Calgary Beacon and Sudbury Star As Moammar Qaddafi’s regime crumbles, the ragtag rebel force that led this revolution—and the nations that supported it with air power—are beginning to forge a new Libya. Given Qaddafi’s cult-of-personality ...

  4. Whither the Obama of Hope?

    Appeared in The Mark News “What happened to hope?” That’s the question many of President Barack Obama’s supporters are asking three years after a campaign that criticized “wars of choice” and the PATRIOT Act, promised to “finish the fight” in Afghanistan, ...

  5. A World Worth Fighting For: The Power and Promise of the Atlantic Charter at 70

    Appeared in the American Legion Magazine Winston Churchill called it “a great hour to live.” Franklin Roosevelt described it as a summertime “cruise,” while the White House told the press it was nothing more than a “fishing holiday.” It was the Atlantic ...

  6. An Old Soldier Fades Away

    Appeared in The Mark News As Robert Gates hands off the reins at the Pentagon to Leon Panetta, the American people and their allies in Canada, Europe and Asia should take comfort in knowing that the first and last line of the West’s defence has been—and ...

  7. Broader Lessons of the bin Laden Strike

    Appeared in Outlook The U.S. strike on al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden—call it V-O Day—didn’t end the war he unleashed. But it did mark an important victory in the ongoing struggle against al Qaeda, other jihadist groups, and their state patrons and ...

  8. Look Who's Leading NATO

    Appeared in The Mark News Whatever one’s opinion of the war in Libya, one thing is beyond debate: French president Nicolas Sarkozy is leading it. Every step of the way, from the decision to go into Libya in hopes of preventing a Bosnia-style bloodbath in ...

  9. Problems with Time-Limited War

    Appeared in NUZCanada, Truro Daily News and the New Brunswick Times & Transcript Reasonable people can disagree about the merits of intervening in Libya. But given that not intervening would likely have allowed Moammar Qaddafi to turn Benghazi ...

  10. Canada and U.S. Need Each Other as Partners for Peace

    Appeared in Diplomat and International Canada The world has weathered profound economic challenges since the summer of 2008, challenges that could have fractured, or at least stunted, the all-important partnership between Canada and the United States. Yet ...