Time for a Course Correction on China
(Washington, D.C.): Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's trip next week to Communist China should be the occasion for a wholesale...
Year: 1999
Warily Watching China
By James Webb
The New York Times, 23 February 1999
An oddly nonlinear debate has emerged in Washington regarding the implications of China's growing power. Those who are concerned mainly...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 38: A Debacle in Kosovo, A Shattered NATO ?
(Washington, D.C.): Two months from tomorrow, President Clinton is scheduled to host festive ceremonies intended to honor the fiftieth anniversary...
The New ‘Giant Sucking Sound’: Clinton’s Crumbling Iraq and Russia Policies
(Washington, D.C.): It turns out there is a "giant sucking sound," after all. At the moment, it is not coming...
Caspian Watch #13: Strategically Minded Jewish-American Groups May Help Effect Needed U.S. Regional Policy Shift
(Washington, D.C.): In one of the most promising politico-foreign policy developments in recent years, six leading Jewish-American organizations have joined...
Clinton’s Opposition to Cochran-Inouye Missile Defense Bill Offers Proof of His Abiding Hostility to Defending America
Will Secretary Cohen Resign? (Washington, D.C.): In the wake of Secretary of Defense William Cohen's announcement on 20 January that...
Foreign Lenders Head For The Exits In China
(Washington, D.C.): Roughly one year ago, the Casey Institute made a bold prediction early in Asia's dramatic financial downturn: "The...
Honor King Hussein: Thwart Palestinian Statehood
(Washington, D.C.): Amid the funeral dirges accompanying the eulogies for Jordan's King Hussein, a seemingly inappropriate musical number keeps coming...
Kosovo: Don’t Go There
'Thanks, But No Thanks' to Architect Holbrooke's Promotion (Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration is slouching towards a multinational intervention in...
Breakfast of Champions: An Unrepentant Arafat Has No Place at the National Prayer Breakfast
(Washington, D.C.): If the Clinton Administration has its way, on February 4th, Yasser Arafat's presence will make a sacrilege of...
Cuba Does Still Represent a Threat: Despite Administration Low-Balling, Drug Trafficking, Radiation dangers are Real
(Washington, D.C.): For months the Clinton Administration has been trying to lay the groundwork for the gradual normalization of relations...
If the Clinton Pentagon Can’t Get Ready to Fight the Millennium Bug, How Will It Contend with Terrorism?
(Washington, D.C.): In the midst of what President Clinton would have us believe is a serious new effort to prepare...
Profile in Courage #1: Donald Rumsfeld Calls for Missile Defenses, an End to A.B.M. Treaty Impediments
(Washington, D.C.): On the 28 January edition of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Donald Rumsfeld made a signal contribution to...
Charles Krauthammer for the (Missile) Defense
Center's Gaffney Calls for Debate on How Best to Do the Job (Washington, D.C.): In today's Washington Post, one of...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 37: An End to the U.S. Posture of ‘Assured Vulnerability’?
(Washington, D.C.): Over the past ten days, the Clinton Administration has signaled its intention to make the most significant sea-change...
MEMORANDUM OF LAWBy George Miron and Douglas J. Feith,
22 January 1999
22 January 1999
DID THE ABM TREATY OF 1972 REMAIN IN FORCE AFTER THE USSR CEASED TO EXIST IN DECEMBER 1991 AND DID...