‘Mr. Arafat, Renounce This Map’
(Washington, D.C.): In 1987, a President of the United States confronted a great evil and found a simple, yet powerful,...
Middle East
A Seriously Bad Idea: U.S. Monitors’ and Military Forces Have No Place in Palestine’
New York Times' Tom Friedman Comes Unglued (Washington, D.C.): George Santayana once described a zealot as someone who redoubles his...
Has Israel Become an ‘Inconvenient’ Ally?
(Washington, D.C.): Last year, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon precipitated a firestorm of criticism from the Bush Administration by suggesting...
What Not to Do About Iraq: Send in Inspectors
David Kay Calls to Mind Why They Have not, and Cannot, Work (Washington, D.C.): It is a safe bet what...
What is Wrong with Arafat’s Picture?
Source: Palestinian National Authority (Washington, D.C.): The editorial page of today's Wall Street Journal features a map to which the...
The Saudi Scam II: Krauthammer Warns Against Bid to Spring Arafat While He Continues to Foment Terror
(Washington, D.C.): In a characteristically brilliant essay in today's Washington Post, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer describes the near-term objective of...
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...
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...