‘It’s U.S. Security, Stupid’
(Washington, D.C.): In 1980, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan posed a single question with devastating effect for Jimmy Carter's reelection...
Defense
Memo to ‘W’: You Can’t Get to a Missile Defense Via the A.B.M. Treaty
(Washington, D.C.): Up in Maine, where the Bush family has long vacationed, there is an old joke about a native...
Bill Clinton, ‘New Isolationist’?
The U.S. Needs a Missile Defense That Defends its Allies, Too
(Washington, D.C.): As the worm turns! In the wake of the U.S. Senate's crushing rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban...
Defending the Senate’s Constitutional Prerogatives: Lott is Right, Clinton-Albright Wrong on the Status of the C.T.B.T.
(Washington, D.C.): Subsequent to the Senate's crushing rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) on 13 October, President Clinton,...
1999 Keeper of the Flame Award: Jim Jones
In the company of over 350 fellow military officers, top legislators and congressional staff, executive branch officials (past and present),...
Wrong Again: Scowcroft and Kanter’s Advice on ‘Fixing the C.T.B.T.’ Won’t Do the Job
(Washington, D.C.): In yesterday's Washington Times, two prominent officials of the Bush Administration -- former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft...
Did Clinton Want to Lose the CTBT?
(Washington, D.C.): The level of incompetence exhibited by the Clinton Administration in its management and defense of the Comprehensive Test...
Senator Lugar Rebuts False Charges of Partisanship and Isolationism in the C.T.B.T. Vote
(Washington, D.C.): There are few members of the U.S. Senate whose reputations can compare to that of Sen. Richard Lugar...
Take Russia’s ‘No’ for an Answer on Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): Here we go again. The Clinton Administration is once more trying to have it both ways on missile...
A.E.I. Postmortem Shows Senate Wisely Rejected C.T.B.T. — For Substantive Reasons, Not Due to Partisanship or ‘Isolationism’
(Washington, D.C.): The American Enterprise Institute performed a signal pubic service in the immediate aftermath of the Senate's defeat of...
Telling It Like It Was: Chairman Helms on the C.T.B.T. Vote
(Washington, D.C.): Traditionally, the history of great battles has been written by the victors. In the case of the Senate's...
George Will, Richard Perle Sing Senate Majority’s Praises For Courageous Vote Against the Defective C.T.B.T.
(Washington, D.C.): Amidst the echo chamber of Washington spinmeisters, members of the United States Senate -- to say nothing of...
Neither Isolationists Nor Fools, By Richard PerleThe New York Times, 19 October 1999
"Isolationism" and "partisanship" were the names, "reckless" and "dangerous" the characterizations with which a stunned Clinton Administration and much of...
Politics and the Test Ban Treaty, By George F. Will, Newsweek, 20 October 1999
President Clinton, whose cynicism never loses its power to astonish, put on a long face and, with that tone of...
A New Skepticism on Arms Control, By James T. HackettThe Washington Times, 18 October 1999
The Senate vote on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was more than just the defeat of a flawed agreement,...
Fumble on the Test Ban Treaty By Richard Burt The Washington Post, 18 October 1999
The rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is indeed a debacle for American foreign policy, but the blame lies...