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In his surprisingly effective inaugural address George W. Bush spent only a nominal amount of time on foreign policy (as distinguished from military policy insofar as they can be distinguished) and filled it mostly with "we’re still engaged; terrorists don’t get any cute ideas" boilerplate. But it seems to me that a Bush administration foreign … Continue reading “Dubya’s Foreign Policy Could Depend On Us”

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Taiwan independence is dead. It died, stillborn. Taiwan independence was the triumph of politics over economics. That is, until the iron laws of The Marketplace turned Taiwan independence zealots’ pipe dream to dust. In retrospect, no other result was possible, or should have been expected. TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE IS DEAD A funny thing happened … Continue reading “Taiwan Independence, R.I.P.”

I hate to say I told you so – really I do, especially in this case – but reports are circulating that US military forces in Europe have been placed on alert status “Bravo” – and are about ready to go into action. Target: the Middle East. According to WorldNetDaily, US and British troops are … Continue reading “Inaugural Fireworks Over Iraq?”

I almost gagged when I heard Bill Bennett, on one of the Sunday talk shows, defend John Ashcroft by opining that “all the haters pretty much left the Republican party with Pat Buchanan.” The mordant irony of this slander is that the smearing of Buchanan paved the way for the borking of Ashcroft. If some … Continue reading “What Goes Around”

Madeleine Albright, as Agence France-Presse recently reported, closed out her final mission abroad in style. The comfortable converted Boeing 757 used by the Secretary of State for trips abroad, on which la Albright has logged almost a million miles in four years, was stocked with fine champagne and French cheeses for the final Albright trip … Continue reading “Clinton’s Sad Foreign Policy Legacy”

THE JOYS OF UNIVERSALISM Universalism is said to be a wonderful thing. It brings to mind Alexander the Great, widely praised by historians earlier in this – I mean the late – century, as a heroic founder of ‘universalism.’ The praise came because he made his officers take Persian brides, as did he, to cement … Continue reading “Janus-Faced Universalism and Rosy-Fingered Dawn”

The media’s biased war against the Serbs has been a major factor in the dismemberment of the former Yugoslavia and the demonizing of an entire nation. One of the best examples of such bias can be found in the Washington Times, both in its reporting of events in the Balkans and its editorial policy. I … Continue reading “The Media’s War Against the Serbs”

Ten years ago, George Herbert Walker Bush unleashed the mightiest military machine on earth against a poor, Third World country whose only “crime” consisted of redrawing the map of the Middle East as originally drawn by the British Foreign Office. Iraq has always claimed Kuwait as its “nineteenth province,” an assertion that history in the … Continue reading “The Gulf War In Retrospect: the “Isolationists” Were Right”

I hate to disappoint my Republican readers who fell for Condolezza Rice’s jive talk about the US getting out of the Balkans, but you’ve been had. Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan), fresh from Dubya’s meeting with congressional leaders on defense issues, said the President-elect was a bit more cautious about the prospect of pulling out than … Continue reading “Our War Criminals and Theirs”

Tony Blair, the pompous martinet who thinks he’s a left-wing version of Maggie Thatcher, was smacked with a ripe tomato yesterday. No matter what the reason, I thought as I read the headline, he deserved it. As it turned out, the perpetrators of this act of justice were a group protesting the UN sanctions imposed … Continue reading “The American Dracula”