Diehl Archive for PostPartisan - Quick takes by The Post's opinion writers

The administration goes after Karzai

Today’s papers are once again full of leaks by administration officials heaping scorn on Afghan President Hamid Karzai -- the leader with whom the United States will have to work if U.S. forces remain in Afghanistan. Among other things,...

A wall falls in Baghdad

Several of my colleagues have weighed in today on the fall of the Berlin wall 20 years ago. I covered that event for The Post, and I have a graffiti-stained chunk of the wall to prove it. But to...

Another John Kerry 'flip-flop'?

Sen. John Kerry seems to have confused the Washington press corps. Fresh from Afghanistan, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman delivered a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations on Monday that caused The Post to report that he...

The Nobel Committee Comes Clean

At least the Nobel committee came clean this time. In awarding the peace prize to President Obama its chairman acknowledged that it did so because it agrees with and wants to promote his politics. "We are hoping this may...

The Town Hall Debate: Obama's Foreign Policy Surprise

Though the candidates didn’t break much ground in their discussion of foreign policy last night, I was struck by Barack Obama’s answer when Tom Brokaw asked him whether “Russia under Vladimir Putin is an evil empire.” “I think they've...

The VP Debate: Biden's Distortions