The military campaign against the Taliban has fulfilled the expectations of Pakistan's ruler, General Musharraf, who hoped it would be "short and sharp." And so it was. All of a sudden, the scent of victory is in the air. Last week, according to our disgruntled...
It is time for President Bush to stop the cheer-leading and speak the truth. He said last Thursday, "This great nation will never be intimidated. . . . Life in America is going forward." Who is he trying to kid? Last Friday at Los Angeles airport I saw...
An old anti-Semitic slur that has been making the rounds for many years characterizes the Jews as "cosmopolites," a "fifth column" that knows no loyalty to their host country but owes allegiance only to itself. This, of course, is an ignorant smear, one that,...
Imagine the following scenario: after ages of discrimination, the United States decides to compensate African-Americans generously and to solve their problems once and for all. All African-Americans are locked up in prison, and the prisons are declared to be an...
Two months into the war, and the Americans were hard-pressed to point to a single success, never mind the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. The argument that the Afghan war is a quagmire waiting to swallow them seemed more credible than ever, and significant...
It's been nearly two months since the September 11 mass-slaughters, and the U.S. response more and more resembles that period when America was beginning its long slide into Vietnam. I grant you that it's not an exact comparison – one obvious difference, because...
PEACE STUDIES AREN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE Twenty years ago, someone might have opened up a journal of "peace studies" with some hope of finding useful analysis or information. At worst, he might confront some well-meaning Norwegian or Swede going on about imperialism,...
China is just days away from WTO membership and the problems forecasted by many analysts, including this young hack columnist, show no signs of disappearing on their own. Chinese peasants still rely on animals, ancient utensils and sweat to till their fields, urban...
"Bin Laden’s objective," I speculated to Hernando de Soto, Peru’s great author of The Other Path and now The Mystery of Capital, "is the expulsion of American interests from the Muslim world." "No, no," he replied, "it’s more than that. He wants...
While conservatives are among the most insistent cheerleaders for the "new war," they may well turn out to be its biggest losers, at least here on the home front. Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) could hardly contain her glee the other night on Crossfire when she...
