The era of "Cowboy Diplomacy" is over, writes Time magazine. The Bush Doctrine – "The world's worst regimes will not be allowed to acquire the world's worst weapons" – is being defied by Iran's Ahmadinejad and North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, with impunity. The...
"America, in this young century, proclaims liberty throughout all the world, and to all the inhabitants thereof." So spoke U.S. President George W. Bush in his second inaugural address last January, vowing to help build democratic institutions and strengthen...
With Ali Fadhil FALLUJAH - It could be called perhaps just another raid. Early in the morning on Sunday, June 18, U.S. military helicopters landed near the home of Sinan Abdul-Ilah al-Mashadani in the al-Jughaifi district of Fallujah. Within two minutes the doors of...
NEW DELHI - The failure in rapid succession, this week, of a satellite launcher and a new ballistic missile have shown up the technological and budgetary difficulties faced by India's space establishment – civilian and military. Hours after the $50 million...
U.S. and European officials have been saying for years that Iran is using its publicly declared nuclear program as a cover for a clandestine nuclear weapons program, but have never produced concrete evidence to support that argument. Since April, however, Western...
Andrew Sullivan really does have breathtaking cheek. In the Sunday Times [1], he has the brass neck to accuse the Bush administration of "incoherence" because they don't fancy taking on Kim, when they did take on Saddam (disastrously). Sullivan's piece is strongly...
One of the first things Condi Rice didn't do as secretary of state was to address the 2005 Review Conference of the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons [.pdf]. She also didn't allow the conclusions and commitments made at the 2000 NPT RevCon [.pdf] to even...
Although George W. Bush is probably not the worst president in U.S. history (Woodrow Wilson may have that dubious honor), the president may be in contention for that title in the post-World War II era. Although he still has two and a half years to go in his term...
On the one hand, there's the madness of devolving Iraq, where dead bodies and sectarian bloodletting are now the daily norm; on the other hand, there's the eternal madness of the never less than devolving Israeli/Palestinian situation. There, last week, the Israeli...
Despite popular support for girls' education, attacks by a resurgent Taliban and other groups in southern and southeastern Afghanistan are forcing the closure of schools throughout the region and beyond, according to a new report released Monday by Human Rights Watch...
