Just before Christmas, a few days after President Bill Clinton had been impeached by the House of Representatives, Clinton received intelligence from Iraqi exiles that Saddam Hussein and his entourage would be spending a specific night in an underground bunker beneath...
Policy Is More Important
Than Personnel
President Bush has been under pressure to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, whom many view as the architect of a failed approach in Iraq. Even many ardent war hawks are unhappy with the secretary for not having more troops on the ground in Iraq, and for...
Bush-Hu Meeting
a Blown Opportunity
Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the nation's capital last week was an especially noteworthy disaster. A summit that should have dealt with the vital issue of how the United States can peacefully acknowledge China's rise as a great power focused instead on...
Kerry’s Halfhearted Reversal
The search is finally over. Sen. John Kerry is believed to have found his heroic voice. He apparently misplaced it back in the early '70s after standing up to the U.S. war in Vietnam upon his saluted return from battle. Now many antiwar liberals believe Kerry is...
Pakistan Stressed by US Designs on Iran
KARACHI - As the crisis around Iran over its alleged nuclear ambitions assumes an ugly shape, Pakistan finds itself once again under enormous political pressure because of aggressive United States policy toward a Muslim country in its immediate neighborhood. Already,...
Why We Cannot Talk With Hamas
Polls show that a majority of the Israelis support negotiations with Hamas, but official Israel refuses to talk to it, at any level. Israel instead launches a worldwide campaign to persuade all countries to boycott Hamas and to join its military and financial blockade...
A Wake-Up Call
for the President
Just a week back, I suggested that there was no reason to believe the president's approval ratings had bottomed out. In fact, I wrote, "There is no reason to believe that a polling bottom exists for this president, not even perhaps the Nixonian Age of Watergate nadir...
Two Trials
What about this and this is the same? What is different? These sorts of questions sound like some you might encounter on one of those annoying tests they made you take in school, which are supposed to gauge intelligence but probably wind up measuring only one's...
At the Very Least, Let’s Not Repeat Iraq
I did not support the Iraq War. I disagreed with it from the very beginning and never felt that the Bush administration was telling the truth when it came to the imminent threat of a "mushroom cloud." That said, we are stuck in Iraq, and now the Bush...
Let the AIPAC Spy Trial Begin
Judge T.S. Ellis III has offered a rare second opportunity to the Rosen and Weissman defense team. They again made their case that the indictment of the two former AIPAC lobbyists was "trampling on their 1st Amendment rights." Although Judge Ellis established an...


