L 'affaire Plame is about breaking the law, about arrogance, about the ordinary viciousness that suffuses the corridors of power – but its real significance is overlooked in the frenzy to find the perpetrator and tie him or her to the White House. The problem...
A blue-ribbon panel on U.S. public diplomacy is calling on President George W Bush not only to sharply increase funding to more effectively explain U.S. policy to an increasingly hostile Islamic world, but also to narrow the gap between U.S. values and what Washington...
So there's a Presidential election Sunday in Chechnya. Haven't heard that much about it? Not surprising; it's not much of a contest, really. As the Radio Netherlands website drolly put it in an article entitled "Soviet-style Polls in Chechnya," "There's no...
To say that there's blood in the water and the sharks are circling around the Bush administration's Iraq policy would be understatement at this point. It's more like a blood bank that's been dropped into the water, the sharks have taken the first bites, and Amazonian...
Strong critics of U.S. foreign policy often encounter charges of "anti-Americanism." Even though vast numbers of people in the United States disagree with Washington's assumptions and military actions, some pundits can't resist grabbing onto a timeworn...
This past April 18, India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee raised many hopes when he offered Pakistan "the hand of friendship" from a public rally at Srinagar, the capital of Indian Kashmir. The greatest of these hopes was that South Asia's long, dark night of...
Surely it isn't modesty that makes the neocons shy away from the spotlight. Yet how else can we explain Joshua Muravchik's shock at the sudden discovery that entering the term "neoconservative" into Lexis-Nexis will cause an aborted search because "the number of...
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The Bush administration's Iraq policy seems to be imploding rather affectively without much help from me this week. President Bush's speech at the U.N. last week seems to have received the reception it deserved from the thugs standard-issue commentators are pleased to...
Ambassador Paul Bremer, head of the US provisional administration in Iraq, appeared before Congress last week to lobby hard for another $87 billion for nation building. This figure is in addition to the nearly $80 billion we've already spent in Iraq, and the new...
