Was The Iraq War Conceived In A Secret 1992 Document?

By Zalmay Khalilzad (Editor’s note: The following is adapted from the author’s new book, The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey through a Turbulent World.) “You’ve discovered a new rationale for our role in the world,” Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney declared, looking at me. “I read the document last night and I think it is brilliant.” I …

Russia, the U.S. and a great power peace in Syria

By: Zalmay Khalilzad The Middle East has been a source of significant security problems whose obvious manifestations are terrorism and extremism. Several factors feed this trend: the crisis of Islamic civilization arising from disagreements over cause of decline since its peak a millennium ago; the sectarianism-fueled rivalry between the three main regional actors—Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey; rising ethnic Kurdish …