The Saudi Charm Offensive
(Washington, D.C.): Apparently, it all started with a column by the New York Times' Thomas Friedman in early February urging...
Middle East
Where’s O.S.I. When We Need It?
(Washington, D.C.): On the same day Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld felt obliged to shut down the Pentagon's recently established Office...
Rumsfeld’s Now Hear This’ on Iraq
(Washington, D.C.): It was easy to see the old naval aviator in Don Rumsfeld as he appeared on the Sunday...
What to Do About Saudi Arabia
(Washington, D.C.): The recent law suit by an American servicewoman ordered to wear head-to-toe "cover" and submit to other indignities...
What to Do About Iran
(Washington, D.C.): The front page of today's New York Times confirms that what has been predictable -- and predicted --...
Key Legislators Urge Bush Team to Help Liberate Iraq
(Washington, D.C.): A letter to President Bush from leading figures in the House and Senate signals important bipartisan congressional support...
A Moment for Truth
(Washington, D.C.): In the wake of three murderous attacks on Israeli civilians last weekend, Secretary of State Colin Powell was...
What To Do Now About Iraq
(Washington, D.C.): A growing focus of policy debate in Washington and around the world is whether, and if so when,...
Now Hear This’: Does the President Mean What He Says?
(Washington, D.C.): Every skilled government official knows the magic words: "What the President meant to say is...." And with good...
Mideast Vision Thing’: Will Powell et.Al. Blind President Bush to the Palestinians’ Abiding Goal of Judenrein?
(Washington, D.C.): About a decade ago, a President named George Bush dismissed criticism that he was pursuing short-sighted policies by...
Getting History — and the Future — Right
(Washington, D.C.): Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon recently infuriated President Bush by drawing a parallel between the sell-out of Czechoslovakia...
The War on Terror Should Bring Down Sponsoring Regimes, Not Create Them in Palestine’
(Washington, D.C.): One of the few good things to be said about the war against the United States that entered...
A Time to Choose
(Washington, D.C.): Among the most memorable passages in President Bush's extraordinary address to the Joint Session of Congress on September...
Why a Good Fence’ Won’t Make Good Mideast Neighbors
(Washington, D.C.): In recent weeks, there has been a growing chorus involving, among others, normally sagacious observers of the international...
Antidote to Outrageous Palestinian Revisionism and Agitprop
(Washington, D.C.): In the past, it was said that those who fail to study history are condemned to repeat it....
Required Reading: Journal’s Pollack and Post’s Kelly Lay Bare the Bankruptcy of U.S. Moral Equivalence in the Mideast
(Washington, D.C.): Arabists in the State Department are clearly hoping to do a make-over on a President who came to...