Over the past six years the Bush administration, aided and abetted by Congress, has trashed what used to be described as American foreign policy. Foreign policy once was shaped around the U.S. national interest, but no longer. Vulnerable key allies such as Pakistan,...
The most famous words ever spoken in Gaza were the last words of Samson (Judges 16:30): "Let me die with the Philistines!" According to the Biblical story, Samson took hold of the central pillars of the Philistine temple and brought down the whole building...
White House officials have now admitted that George W. Bush was told that the intelligence assessment on a covert Iranian nuclear program might change last August, but they have avoided answering the question of when the president was first informed about the new...
When the George W. Bush administration asked Damascus to attend last month's Annapolis conference, Emad Moustapha, the Syrian ambassador to the United States, was stunned, he admits. "[The U.S.] was really obsessed with making wars. Then we heard that it's not...
Updated at 6:06 p.m. EST, Dec. 19, 2007A large bombing in Abbara was among the numerous attacks that left dozens of casualties throughout Iraq today. Overall, at least 57 Iraqis were killed and 66 more were wounded in the latest violence. No Coalition deaths were...
On the surface, and even below the surface, the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's quest for nuclear weapons is good news. The major U.S. intelligence agencies are now saying that the Iranian government abandoned its direct quest for nuclear weapons in...
Two years after being cleared for release from Guantánamo by a military review board, Adel Hassan Hamad, a hospital administrator who worked for a Saudi charity, and Salim Muhood Adem, who worked with orphans for a Kuwaiti NGO, have been repatriated to the...
I have for some time now publicly articulated my sympathy and support for the state of Israel, even while criticizing those cases that I believed constituted poor judgment and bad policy. My stance was based upon my past experiences with Israel, which began indirectly...
The word-bite coming out of Mike Huckabee's Foreign Affairs manifesto is "arrogant bunker mentality," this in reference to the Bush administration, a mindset which, the new Republican front-runner avers, "has been counterproductive at home and...
Updated at 11:30 p.m EST, Dec. 17, 2007At least 47 Iraqis were killed and 59 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. A bomber tried to collapse a dam in northern Iraq that could have cost the lives of tens of thousands of people downriver. Another bomber in...
