Thanks, But No Thanks: Clinton Should Back Bosnia in Rejecting Vance-Owen ‘Peace In Our Time’
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton's baptism of fire in foreign affairs looms before him. The long-suffering people of Bosnia, those elsewhere...
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US Strategic Defense Program Is Too Important To Be Entrusted To Officials Who Would Eviscerate It
Candidate Clinton said during the campaign that a "fresh assessment" of the threats to U.S. interests was needed, including those...
TRANSFORMATION WATCH #12: ‘PLUS ÇA CHANGE…’ RUSSIA REVERTS TO FORM, HOW WILL CLINTON RESPOND?
(Washington, D.C.): Even as Russian President Boris Yeltsin is insisting that the United States and its G-7 partners immediately reschedule...
New Russian Defaults on Debt Raise Doubts Over Ex-Im Loan Plan
By MICHAEL S. LELYVELD Journal of Commerce , January 13, 1993 Russia's growing defaults on debts to the United States...
Red Ink Rising: Congress Needs To Take A Hard Look At New Loans To Defaulting Moscow
U.S. taxpayers are facing a rapidly-rising pool of red ink marring the books of two U.S. government lending agencies --...
Say It Ain’t So: Clinton’s Pledge To Restore Moral Compass In Foreign Policy Abandoned Before The Inauguration?
(Washington, D.C.): In the course of a press conference yesterday, President-elect Bill Clinton sounded a breathtakingly conciliatory note toward Saddam...
‘Now Hear This’: Will Aspin’s Commitment To V-22 Translate Into Needed Momentum, Real Peace Dividend?
(Washington, D.C.): In the course of confirmation hearings last week, Secretary of Defense-designate Les Aspin assured the Senate Armed Services...
Overdue, Underdone: What the Coalition Air Strikes on Iraq Should Have Been About, But Weren’t
(Washington, D.C.): For the second time in as many years, U.S. and coalition forces in the Persian Gulf have been...
The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience: The New Chemical Weapons Treaty Is A Dangerous Delusion
Samuel Johnson once said that second marriages represent "the triumph of hope over experience." The same applies to much of...
How Not to Lend To A Bankrupt Russia: Eximbank Energy Deal Should Be Iced, Reworked
The terms of a multi-billion dollar series of loan guarantees to the Russian oil and gas sector in preparation by...
Tilt! US Security, Industry Dangerously Dependent on Foreign Sources for Critical Electronic Components
(Washington, D.C.): A distressing little secret about U.S. national security and technological competitiveness awaits the Clinton Administration: The United States...
‘IN THE NAME OF GOD, GO’ IN: TIME TO END THE WEST’S ‘KITTY GENOVESE’ SYNDROME ON BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA
(Washington, D.C.): However inconvenient it may be in light of the political transition underway at the moment, the United States...
The U.S. Leads Operation Wrong Target
By ANGELO CODEVILLAThe Wall Street Journal, JANUARY 7, 1993 Operation Restore Hope is likely to do more harm than good...
When Will We Ever Learn? Last Bush Foreign Policy Paroxysm Produces Flawed Start Ii Accord — For Wrong Reasons
Suddenly, there is a START II Treaty. Before negotiators had even finished drafting the document, Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger...
REVOLVING DOORS: EXIMBANK OFFICIAL’S SCANDALOUS SELF-DEALING IS A BLOW TO U.S. TAXPAYERS, ‘REDCARPET’ FOR RETURNING RUSSIAN HARDLINERS — AND THEIR AMERICAN FRIENDS
(Washington, D.C.): The outgoing Bush Administration is poised to extend some $2 billion in U.S. Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) loan guarantees...
AS PREDICTED, A ‘DECEMBER SURPRISE’ FOR U.S. TAXPAYERS; G-7 DEBT RESCHEDULING REWARDS KREMLIN FOR GAIDAR’S OUSTER
(Washington, D.C.): As predicted by the Center for Security Policy in July 1992, the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations...