What it looks like to me – and to some people in Houston a friend and I have talked to who are in a much better position to know firsthand – is that Daddy called on his old friend and consigliere to save Junior from himself. Jim Baker, impelled by friendship...
With the administration of President George W. Bush under mounting pressure to alter U.S. strategy in Iraq and the Middle East, a new public opinion survey quietly released this week found strong popular support for pursuing new diplomatic avenues as proposed by the...
Updated at 7:20 p.m. EST, Dec. 9, 2006 A pair of separate car bombs, including one near an important shrine, added to today’s tally of Iraqi victims of violence. Overall, at least 59 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 51 were wounded. Also, U.S....
On Wednesday, December 6, 2006, the Iraq Study Group finally presented its much-anticipated report on Iraq to the President and the country. It seems the President needs advice, and so he welcomed the formation of the Iraq Study Group when it was formed last March....
Perhaps it is fitting that the Iraq Study Group chose to make its report public on "Pearl Harbor Day," calling on, inter alia, President Bush to seek Iran’s help in extricating us from the mess he got us into by his "preemptive" attack on oil-rich Iraq’s...
I wish I could say that the Democratic takeover of Congress gives me hope for an end to the war in Iraq. But it doesn't. Since winning an overwhelming victory at the polls this November, the Democrats have done nothing to engender optimism in the peace camp. Senate...
An early impulse of Bush administration officials after the attacks of September 11, 2001 was to take off "the gloves," or, as CIA Director George Tenet put it (so Ron Suskind tell us in his book, The One Percent Doctrine), "the shackles." Those were the "shackles"...
ARBIL - In a strongly worded statement, the president of Iraq's northern Kurdistan region rejected in its entirety the report by the Iraq Study Group, and threatened that Kurds would opt for secession from Iraq should Washington try to implement some of the key...
Is President Bush Sane? Paul Craig Roberts asks a compelling question: "Is President Bush sane?" Though Bush is apparently power-mad, don't underestimate his ruthlessness. Cunning is the word for Bush. He is shrewd enough to know that Hitler took total power in the...
At Tuesday's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the nomination of Robert Gates to be secretary of defense, I felt as though I were paying last respects to the Constitution of the United States. But there was none of the praise customarily given to the...
