Who Lost Russia?

By 1988, Ronald Reagan, who had famously branded the Soviet Union "an evil empire," was striding through Red Square arm-in-arm with Mikhail Gorbachev. Russians were pounding both men on the back. They had just signed the greatest arms-reduction agreement in history...

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Survey: US Arab, Jewish Communities Share Peace Goals

Almost exactly 40 years after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the Arab and Jewish communities of the United States appear largely agreed on the general outlines of a final settlement and the importance of Washington playing a stronger role in bringing it about. Those are...

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Backtalk, June 5, 2007

Pakistan Is Going Down the Road of the Shah's Iran Political commentators generally tend to misrepresent the position of Islamists in Pakistan. Being close to Pakistan and actively observing the current events it becomes quite obvious that despite the post-Sept. 11...

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US Missile Defense
Splits Europe

BUDAPEST - U.S. President George W. Bush is visiting the Czech Republic and Poland this week as part of Washington's ongoing diplomatic effort to convince the region's leaders of the need for a missile-defense system in Eastern Europe – revealing a potential new...

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Has Libby Learned Nothing?

Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega has been writing about the case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame for this site since the summer of 2005. The story itself began back in July 2003 with a New York Times op-ed by Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph...

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Back to the Future

[This is the text of a speech given at the Future of Freedom Foundation conference "Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties" on June 1.] To listen to the public spokesmen of the War Party, one would think that the 9/11 attacks tore a hole in the...

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Cheney Misstates Military Oath

Am I the only one who noticed? I hope not. But just in case, let me note that Vice President Dick Cheney made a huge misstatement to his West Point audience on May 26. I hope that, at a minimum, the West Point history majors noticed it. Near the end of his speech at...

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