Just as the White House claims that it has finally turned the corner in what it defines as the "central front" in the war on terror – Iraq – it has found itself desperately trying to contain new crises in the war's "periphery" stretching...
As a shortage of experienced diplomats in Iraq has led the US State Department to announce that it will force Foreign Service officers to serve in Baghdad against their will, the leader of the US diplomatic service is charging that critics, "including people who...
Updated at 10:50 p.m. EST, Nov. 9, 2007Several small bombings throughout Iraq killed a number of victims including several children. Overall, 45 Iraqis were killed and 33 more were wounded. No Coalition deaths were reported. Also, the UN refugee agency called...
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Making War to Keep Peace (New York: Harper Collins, 2007), 367 pp. Reviewed by Doug Bandow Jeane Kirkpatrick, who served as UN ambassador under President Ronald Reagan, was commonly viewed as the godmother of neoconservatism. Yet when she...
While Pakistan is getting all the attention as the latest US-supported dictatorship to implode, another and even more telling example is President Mikhail Saakashvili's recent clampdown in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. While the regime of Gen. Pervez...
"Too soon old and too late smart." That saying was one of my Dad's favorites, and one he used when one of us in the family re-made a past mistake, having not learned from the first error. I am guilty of that in regard to the current game being played by Commentary's...
KANDAHAR - Like other troops, the Sep.11, 2001 attacks against the United States inspired Sgt. First Class Darryl Cheatham to join the military. The South Carolina native had already served 10 years in the army before returning to civilian life, but patriotism lured...
ANKARA - Triumphalism, which generally prevails in official communiqués and the Turkish media following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visits abroad, was dimmed Monday night at the end of the meeting between him and US President George W. Bush. The...
The Coming Balkan Caliphate: The Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West by Christopher Deliso, Praeger Security International, 2007 For almost two decades, events in the Balkans have been described in the West as a simple consequence of "greater Serbian...
If George W. Bush's "freedom agenda" is to be his presidential legacy, then his six-year "global war on terror" has been his own worst enemy. As lawyers in Pakistan are being beaten and arrested by authorities for protesting against the imposition...
