I was 20, and the so-called Vietnam War was just heating up. I did my homework on Vietnam because teachers challenged my opinions. I thought the early antiwar protesters were completely wrong; we had to stop those dirty commies, after all. The newspapers told us so....
If President Bush has competent advisers, he must know that his Iraqi war has become a liability for him and for the Republican Party and might easily become a catastrophe. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that 45 percent of Americans doubt President...
Last year, President Bush made a number of proposals to "strengthen" the existing weapons of mass destruction proliferation-prevention regime. He proposed expanding his Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to interdict what he deems to be illicit...
The state of Israel – which, the last time I checked, was both a foreign and a sovereign nation – wants the American taxpayers to cough up $2.2 billion in addition to our regular $3 billion-or-so annual subsidy to pay for the withdrawal from Gaza. Unless the...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins his visit to the United States next week amidst indications that India is preparing to shed the last vestiges of its earlier policy of nonalignment and enter into a stronger, indeed unprecedented, "strategic partnership" with...
LONDON - An Iraqi connection was conspicuously missing from the first statements British Prime Minister Tony Blair made on the bomb blasts in London Thursday last week. But new developments suggest a powerful link between the British invasion and occupation of Iraq...
UNITED NATIONS - A group of U.S.-based human rights and trade union activists is urging the United Nations to investigate the alleged killings of innocent civilians by its peacekeeping troops in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince last week. The activists, who were...
I have to wonder what George Bush must be thinking as Iraq's elected Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari readies for his trip next week to Iran. I wonder if he's surprised that the two countries have recently inked a deal to have the Iranian government train the new...
Back in the 1950's comedienne Carol Burnett made her name as a nightclub performer with a song called "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles." Americans had a big laugh over the spectacle of a celebrated entertainer singing a love song about U.S. President...
I don't remember how long I have been using Leon Hadar for his insights into the Middle East and the complications engendered by the prolonged and increasingly aggressive American interventions – indeed, as Leon puts it, the ongoing efforts to establish the...
