Amid signs that the administration of President George W. Bush remains unwilling to take stronger steps to get Israeli-Palestinian peace talks back on track, a growing number of prominent U.S. and foreign figures are calling for a new international mechanism to set...
Everyone now knows that the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Bush ordered prepared in the summer of 2002 to "justify" the preemptive invasion and occupation of Iraq was – to put it politely – a crock [pdf]. It relied heavily on disinformation –...
On the 30th anniversary of the first midair bombing of a civilian airliner in the Americas, the plot's suspected mastermind is hoping that a U.S. federal judge will soon release him from a Texas jail where he has been held on immigration-related charges for the last...
Except for the fact that the crowd in the White House, however poorly it may do other things, like conducting a war, has a certain facility for pulling electoral victory from the jaws of defeat, Washington Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward's new book, State...
Updated at 5:00 p.m. EDT, Oct. 8, 2006 In another violent day in Iraq, at least 148 have died and 41 have been wounded. Among the deaths is that of an American soldier who was killed by enemy fire in the northern town of Baiji and the captain of the Iraqi handball...
Are You an 'Unlawful Combatant'? "This kind of fear is understandable to Americans only on a very abstract level. We, after all, have no experience with a police state – not in the sense of a systematic totalitarian approach to repression – of which the...
Updated at 10:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 6, 2006 Today's reports from Iraq state that 56 people have been killed and 23 wounded in recent incidents related to the war or sectarian violence. Among the dead or injured are three soldiers, who succumbed to wounds received from...
Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman Pantheon, 2006 199 pp. George W. Bush still has more than two years to serve as president, but it isn't too early to proclaim his foreign policy to be a failure. America no longer...
One of the biggest promises made by George W. Bush as a candidate – no more nation-building – has turned out to be his biggest lie as president. In the final weeks of the 2000 campaign, Bush slammed the Clinton administration for doing exactly what he's...
Once while traveling in a taxi, I had an argument with the driver – a profession associated in Israel with extreme right-wing views. I tried in vain to convince him of the desirability of peace with the Arabs. In our country, which has never seen a single day of...
