In my last column, I presented the first part of a proposed "Platform" for noninterventionist conservatives, a statement of principle and policy broken down along geographical lines. Part I dealt with Europe and Eastasia; what follows are sections covering the Middle...
This morning's [March 27] New York Times has yet another story about the developing split within the Bush administration over foreign policy, with the partisans of Donald Rumsfeld, unreconstructed cold warrior, versus Colin Powell's (relatively) noninterventionist...
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE..... Over the last few weeks a realization has been trickling down into the dimmer reaches of the US media. It is a realization that a specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Greater Albania. There is much open shock and dismay – now...
THE MYSTERY OF SELF-CRUCIFIXION What I don't get is this: how come American born-again Christians slavishly rationalize the casual brutalities of Israel's every twist and turn, close their eyes to the killing of Palestinian children, and hail the butcher Ariel Sharon...
Israel is presently experiencing a clear return to the past. The younger generation – Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, born in the 1940's – was forced out of the political arena, and the older generation – Ariel Sharon (as Prime Minister) and Shimon...
On March 24, 1999, at 1858 GMT, NATO warplanes attacked Yugoslav positions outside Pristina and Belgrade – and the Albanian juggernaut was launched. By March 24, 2001, that juggernaut will have rolled deep into Macedonia, while the suddenly "non-interventionist"...
Breathtaking in its scope, monumental in its sheer brazenness, the hypocrisy of Wesley K. Clark – former supreme commander of American occupation forces in Europe during the Kosovo war – is an awesome sight to behold. This perfumed prince of the military...
It is possible to view events this week as evidence that an administration that has evinced little passionate interest in foreign policy, assuming office after a campaign in which foreign policy played almost no role in the debates or the outcome, could be drawn...
If you want an example of multiculturalism in practice, you have only to look at Macedonia – which is now exploding in a paroxysm of inter-ethnic violence. The Albanian minority in that war-torn nation has been accommodated and coddled to a degree that even our...
I take great pleasure in my job as a columnist and editorial director of Antiwar.com: what could be more enjoyable than the life of a pundit, sitting around commenting on the wicked ways of the world? But sometimes, especially lately, it becomes downright depressing:...
