On the one hand, there's the madness of devolving Iraq, where dead bodies and sectarian bloodletting are now the daily norm; on the other hand, there's the eternal madness of the never less than devolving Israeli/Palestinian situation. There, last week, the Israeli...
Although George W. Bush is probably not the worst president in U.S. history (Woodrow Wilson may have that dubious honor), the president may be in contention for that title in the post-World War II era. Although he still has two and a half years to go in his term...
One of the first things Condi Rice didn't do as secretary of state was to address the 2005 Review Conference of the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons [.pdf]. She also didn't allow the conclusions and commitments made at the 2000 NPT RevCon [.pdf] to even...
On January 28, 2003, George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union address, wherein he uttered 16 fateful words: "The British government," he averred, "has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from...
Surprise, surprise. In an interview with John King from CNN last Thursday, Dick Cheney said that withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq would be the "worst possible thing we could do." Doing his best to stoke the always simmering fears of so many U.S. residents (let us be...
Reality Beneath the Flag-Waving Sadly, every word of Paul Craig Roberts' 4th of July essay decrying the death of American morality in the face of the Bush administration's criminality is 100 percent accurate. I never thought I would see our once-great nation so turned...
Back in the 1970s, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, one of the giants of the 20th century, gave a commencement address at Harvard. It was, I believe, the last public address he gave in America. His criticism was so dead-on that he quickly became persona non grata. I've always...
NEW DELHI - After the successful passage last week of two resolutions favoring the India-United States nuclear deal through the foreign relations committees of both chambers of Congress, it appears highly likely that it will clear the full Senate and House of...
Even as Israeli troops, backed by armored vehicles and Apache attack helicopters, thrust into northern Gaza, political leaders were insisting the foray was temporary and military officials were wondering whether the operation had any hope of achieving its stated goal...
That free fireworks display Kim Jong-Il put on for our benefit on July Fourth may prove to have been the best day George Bush has had since Zarqawi went to his eternal reward. For years, Bush has been trying to persuade world opinion that Kim is a psycho who...
