As a post-9/11 bromide, "everything's changed" has become a journalistic mantra, a theme with endless variations endlessly repeated, and it is easy to become thoroughly sick of it, and suspicious at the same time. For, if "everything's changed,"...
To address this question, there is little need to tackle the present "war." The whole thing is a bit of a muddle anyway. War hasn't exactly been "declared" constitutionally, yet the whole thing can be said to rest on a broad-beamed class of 20th-century precedents,...
It's amazing, really, when you think about it: no sooner had the Pakistan-India conflict reared up as a consequence of America's "new war," then Israel's amen corner in the US had already taken up the cudgels on New Delhi's behalf. Gee, these guys are fast....
There is no denying the vast gulf of difference separating the USA from the PRC. No two countries could be more dissimilar in so many ways. Minneapolitans have been whining for years about the traffic jams clogging up all the major highways in the Twin Cities. I can...
First, they came for the terrorists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a terrorist. Then they came for the foreigners, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a foreigner. Then they came for the Arab-Americans, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't...
Last weekend President Bush said, in response to questions about when the war in Afghanistan might be over, that he would stay in touch with Tommy Franks and other military commanders and declare victory the moment the military experts said the task was done –...
As India took full advantage of the instability in Central Asia to push its agenda in Kashmir, and force a showdown with Pakistan, the rattling of the nuclear saber by Indian defense minister George Fernandes sent a collective shiver down the world's spine. The...
My last New Year's column contained a statement that stands out, in retrospect, as a prediction and a warning that, unfortunately, went unheeded. America, I wrote, "Stands astride the world, a global Gulliver lording it over the Lilliputians. But at the apogee of...
As Israel prepares to expel its Arab helots from Palestine, its "amen corner" worldwide is also on the march, excoriating anyone who looks cross-eyed at Ariel Sharon as an "anti-Semite." The latest front in this campaign is England, where Barbara...
On Saturday, 15 December 2001, the United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have cleared the way for international monitors in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Many believe that such monitors would help end the increasingly bloody...
