The fall of Aleppo to forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is neither the end of the beginning nor the beginning of the end of Syria’s long civil war. It merely shows that those who engage Syria with limited will and limited means must set limited goals if they are to accomplish even a limited amount of good.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin made plain during the US election campaign, the Kremlin is no longer playing by the rules that applied even during the darkest days of the Cold War. With voters heading to the polls in France, Germany, and the Nether…

All governments lie, and some even believe their own lies; but things get dangerous when a government acts in order to be true to its lies. This is the trap into which the Venezuelan government has fallen, and it seems to be the logic behind the incomi…