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wrote this op- ed -- Why we give foreign aid -- supporting the Obama Administration and in particular, Secretary of State John Kerry, traveling to Cairo and handing President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt, a cool $250 million in foreign aid during the current sequestration. Remember, Morsi's Muslim Brother

ael Chavez Frias died. Although highly popular in his home country this four-term President was often portrayed by Western Media as a cross between Zimbabwe's despot president, Robert Mugabe and American comedian, actor, radio- TV personality and host Soupy Sales. And for most of us, whether you liked or

a seven-month process that entails amending the constitution and a parliamentary election in early 2014. While the political action has centered in Cairo, there have been reverberations in the Sinai peninsula where, according to press reports, the Egyptian military in co- ordination with Israel is und

ntry, scheduling elections at the end of July is a high-risk tactical move that may serve to satisfy international partners only in the short term. Zimbabwe: On July 31, the 33-year rule of President Mugabe will be challenged with little hope of change by, among others, a coalition of Morgan Tsvangirai's

d it will not allow any tampering with the brigades' armament under any circumstances," said the Hamas deputy leader. Abu Marzouk, who is based in Cairo, said he made a request to the Egyptian security services to permit him entry into Gaza to facilitate the deal, describing Hamas-Egypt relations as

to procure both energy and influence in Africa. Trouble is, Beijing's see-no- evil-hear-no-evil approach has propped up rogue governments in Sudan, Zimbabwe and elsewhere. It's deadened incentives to build competitive economies that rely on diverse sources of growth. And the dynamic has ushered in a new

The world is still transforming as global power becomes diffused, as information technologies create individual empowerment such as that evident in Cairo's Tahrir Square and, of late, in Kiev, Bangkok, and Caracas. At the same time, you may not be interested in geopolitics, but as Putin's old-school

ead to problem solving. There may be cases where an actor is so bad and incorrigible that the only useful step is to isolate them (think Mugabe in Zimbabwe or apartheid South Africa.). But it is almost never an either/or proposition: Iran and North Korea both show how sanctions and diplomacy can be emp

sort there. The United States was primarily interested in stability. Despite brave speeches on democracy by both Condeleezza Rice and Barack Obama in Cairo, the United States actually pulled its punches in pushing serious democratic reform on Egypt, particularly after the Hamas electoral victory in Gaza

a more efficient use of aid resources to cut development aid entirely and to work only for political change. This is, in effect, what has happened to Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe, but the country had to sink very far before anyone considered pulling the aid plug. Huntington got a number of things wrong. Th