GEYER: Pakistan teeters on edge of war

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GEYER: Open up, but keep cool on Cuba

Saturday, April 18, 2009

At a small dinner in a downtown restaurant just before Easter, we were discussing where our country was going, when a friend who has served for years in Republican administrations suddenly began speaking about the one area of the world that nobody pays any attention to.

GEYER: Ancient strategies lead growth

Winning without the need for violent warfare

Saturday, April 11, 2009

In 1983, a long quarter-century ago, I made my first trip to China and found a country barely emerging from ancient days.

GEYER: 'Anchoring institution'

A values- rather than threat-based alliance

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Thirty years ago, I found myself on a NATO tour for American journalists in West Germany and, through a throw of the dice, I was chosen to go on a helicopter ride over East Germany. Wow! At least I could say I had been over, if not in, the forbidden communist kingdom.

GEYER: War comes closer to home

Security issues to our south more pressing than Afghanistan

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. shocked people by saying before the inauguration that an Obama presidency would be "tested" within six months, and all eyes turned to the Middle East and to the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. President Obama soon duly sent 17,000 additional American soldiers to Afghanistan to turn the tide.

GEYER: Outlaws vs. stability

Stateless armies threaten ordered world

Saturday, March 28, 2009

In the mid-1980s, while covering most of the developing world, I began to realize something was happening that seemed, at least at the time, counter to the common wisdom.

GEYER: Time for righteous anger

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

They tell us we are being very, very good. The pollsters report you and I are now finally saving more than we did before our economic meltdown (and congratulations to us!).

GEYER: Afghanistan abstracts

Thursday, March 5, 2009

In recent days, I have listened to some of our best analysts and military leaders expound on the war in Afghanistan, now 8 long years old and a war one might rationally suppose would eventually face some resolution.

GEYER: Preaching vs. pragmatism

Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009

A curious juxtaposition of styles between two of President Obama's closest compatriots could tell us a great deal about where the nation is heading: Eric Holder has reverted to the old Bill Clinton style of ideological pronouncement-as-policy while Hillary Clinton has instead dropped the Clinton administration's mantra and adopted a policy position of pragmatism and self-interest (and, in this particular case, that ain't easy!).

GEYER: Death of a humanitarian

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009

For humanitarian workers and foreign correspondents, one of the greatest fears is that they will survive wars, revolutions, civil conflicts, dictatorships, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes - and then come home and die in a car crash.