On Tuesday, meeting with the press in the White House Rose Garden, the president responded to a question about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Syria this way: "[P]hoto opportunities and/or meetings with President Assad lead the Assad government to believe...
There's a certain perverse charm to President George W. Bush's charge that Democrats are "more interested fighting political battles in Washington than providing our troops what they need." In the same vein, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that "the president...
It is understandable that intelligent people should be preoccupied with the crises reported in the daily press, but they are best comprehended in their historical context. That context, and the crucial causes and motives guiding American foreign policy since 1950, are...
Updated at 11:57 p.m EDT, Apr. 5, 2007Coalition soldiers took heavy casualties today: Six U.S. and four British soldiers, plus a Kuwaiti translator, lost their lives in separate incidents. A U.S. helicopter was downed as well. Also, at least 83 Iraqis were killed or...
Increasingly anxious about the course of U.S. foreign policy under President George W. Bush, particularly in Iraq, the country appears to be moving toward a "full-blown crisis of public confidence," according to the latest "Confidence in U.S. Foreign...
Updated at 12:40 a.m. EDT, Apr. 5, 2007At least 54 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 52 were wounded in attacks. In three separate incidents, 48 more people have been kidnapped, and Baghdad’s overnight curfew was eased by two hours beginning...
The human rights community has responded angrily to the Supreme Court's decision not to hear the cases of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until they have exhausted all other legal avenues. The effect of the high court's decision Monday is to deny civil judicial...
The title of Dorothy Rabinowitz's Wall Street Journal screed defending two accused spies, "First They Came for the Jews," telegraphs the strategy apologists for Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman will be using when the two AIPAC officials' trial on charges of...
As the dispute over Iran's seizure of British sailors continues to twist and turn, what may have been an isolated incident at the outset is quickly developing into yet another move in the geopolitical chess game between the West and Iran. The incident took place on...
At the White House Correspondents' Dinner the other night, Karl Rove was called up on stage and asked to identify himself. "Peter Fitzgerald," he promptly said. Then, he corrected himself, "Patrick Fitzgerald." (That is, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who had...
