A TIME FOR A PROFILE IN COURAGE: WILL SARBANES OPPOSE UNQUALIFIED DEMOCRATIC AMBASSADORIAL NOMINEES?
(Washington, D.C.): On Wednesday, 4 May, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote on two controversial Clinton nominations...
Year: 1994
‘NO ALDRICH AMESES AT THE WHITE HOUSE’: ARE YOU SURE? REAL CARE IN ORDER AS THE NSC REORGANIZES ‘C.I.’
(Washington, D.C.): As the Center for Security Policy recently noted,(1) one of the more chilling aspects of the collapse of...
UNLUCKY NUMBER: CON JOB ON PDD-13 CAN’T CONCEAL UNACCEPTABILITY OF CLINTON PEACEKEEPING DOCTRINE
(Washington, D.C.): One of these days -- perhaps next Tuesday when President Clinton holds his first "global town meeting" via...
‘FORKED TONGUES’: CLINTON TEAM OPPOSES ARMS FOR BOSNIANS BUT HAPPILY CORRUPTS OTHER SANCTION REGIMES
(Washington, D.C.): On Thursday, 28 April the U.S. Senate is scheduled to hold a major debate on the question of...
Unfinished Business in Iraq
By Laurie MylroieThe Wall Street Journal, 20 April 1994 Commenting on last week's accidental downing of two U.S. helicopters, Rep....
RECKLESS ABANDON: CAN EITHER ISRAEL OR THE U.S. AFFORD RABIN’S BID TO ‘BET THE (GOLAN) FARM’?
(Washington, D.C.): In the face of the palpable failure of his first peace-making gamble with the PLO, Israeli Prime Minister...
WILL CLINTON DE-NUCLEARIZERS UNILATERALLY DISMANTLE THE U.S.STRATEGIC TRIAD, SECURITY POLICY?
(Washington, D.C.): At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week, the Committee's ranking Republican -- Sen. Strom...
‘BRAVO ZULU’ WILLIAM SAFIRE: IN BOSNIA, ‘ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE AIR POWER A CHANCE’
(Washington, D.C.): The Center for Security Policy today offered a "Bravo Zulu" -- Navy code for Well Done! -- to...
General Shilly-Shali
By WILLIAM SAFIRE The New York Times, April 21, 1994 When a President is bereft of an organizing principle, policy...
RESTORATION WATCH #2: RUSSIA’S ORGANIZED CRIME
(Washington, D.C.): One of the most portentous indications of where Russia is headed was provided to the Senate Foreign Relations...
DECAPITATION:SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT POST-COLD WAR ENEMIES TRYING TO ‘TAKE OUT’ THE U.S. GOVERNMENT?
(Washington, D.C.): The New York Times' front page yesterday gleefully reported that the Clinton Administration has decided to dismantle what...
GIVE US A BREAK: RUSSIAN CONFERENCE ON BOSNIA, CLINTON ENDORSEMENT WILL ONLY APPEASE, EMBOLDEN SERBS
(Washington, D.C.): Just at the moment when even Belgrade's most assiduous apologists (e.g., former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger) were...
GUERNICA, 1937; GORAZDE, 1994
(Washington, D.C.): Today -- forty-seven years after the Nazi German-backed destruction of the city of Guernica by Spanish fascist forces...
RESTORATION WATCH #1: THE KREMLIN REVERTS TO FORM
(Washington, D.C.): With the possible exception of the Clinton Administration's ideologists, like Strobe Talbott, and their equally out-of-touch counterparts on...
GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS ON GORAZDE: BRAVO ON ATTACKING SERB AGGRESSORS; OPERATIONAL ASPECTS TROUBLING
(Washington, D.C.): NATO's use of air assets against Serb forces engaged in genocidal attacks against Gorazde is a welcome development....
FIRST HANOI, NOW HAVANA? SPARE US MORTON HALPERIN’S PRESCRIPTIONS FOR POTEMKIN DEMOCRACY IN CUBA
(Washington, D.C.): It is appalling -- if not particularly surprising -- that an individual with Morton Halperin's checkered background and...