Middle East

Condoleezza Rice's 13th trip to the Middle East is over and the situation is not getting better. Without a significant strategic shift, the Annapolis Process will die a slow death. New America's Daniel Levy, writing in The Guardian, argues that there is still time to salvage this initiative, but only if the United States changes tack or the Quartet and Arab states get off the sidelines.

President Bush's final State of the Union address was his least interesting -- largely because it also his least partisan one.

So says Steven Clemons, Director of the American Strategy Program, in this morning-after assessment of Bush's performance, positioning and policy proposals: