HERE WE GO AGAIN: AFTER IRAQI DEBACLE, WILL SYRIA BE LET OFF THE STATE SPONSORS OF TERRORISM LIST?
(Washington, D.C.): Articles in today's New York Times and Washington Post report that Secretary of State Warren Christopher is prepared...
Middle East
A mandate for Israel
Has a conflict evolved into peace when fighting between the opposing armies has ceased? In one sense, yes; but a...
‘Time Out’! Administration Efforts To Railroad Congress On Pro-PLO Legislation Is Bad Policy, Bad Process
The Clinton Administration evidently has become so enthralled with the Palestine Liberation Organization that it is determined to make this...
‘The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience’: Israeli Weariness Begets Strategic Peril
The agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization formalized at a White House ceremony today amounts to a phenomenon...
‘Something Is Rotten In The State Of…’? Why Is This Administration Joining The Bush Iraq Gate Cover-Up?
On 23 August 1993, a top Justice Department official -- Attorney General Janet Reno's special assistant, John Hogan -- told...
Time for A ‘Sanity Check’ On Syrian Intentions: Assad’s Continuing Malevolence Should Be Warning To Israel, US
(Washington, D.C.): With the resumption of open hostilities between Arab terrorist organizations operating from Syrian-controlled Lebanon and Israeli security forces,...
‘Wake-Up Calls’ On Terrorism: Saddam’s Plot, Clinton’s Response Reveal Shape of Things To Come
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton is to be commended for his decision to strike Iraq in retaliation for Saddam Hussein's aborted...
Clinton’s New Mideast ‘Containment’ Strategy: Start By Punishing Saddam For Trying To Kill George Bush
Among the many distressing aspects of what passes for Bill Clinton's foreign policy -- from the abdication of leadership concerning...
A Good Week For The ‘Radical Entente’: Outlaw Nations Likely Emboldened By Ineffectual Western Responses
This was a red letter week for "international outlaws" and rogue nations bent on illegally acquiring weapons of mass destruction,...
Second thoughts about defense
One of the most important news stories in the past week - properly given front-page, "above-the-fold" treatment by The Washington...
Wake-Up Call From Saddam: Turkey Is A Friend In Need, A Friend Indeed
If nothing else, the renewed outbreak of hostilities with Saddam Hussein's Iraq is an important reminder of the volatility of...
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...
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: SYRIA’S STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH IRAN REVEALS BOTH NATIONS’ TRUE MIDEASTINTENTIONS
(Washington, D.C.): Iran's recent, controversial deal to buy three advanced diesel submarines from Russia is but the latest evidence of...
A GOOD QUESTION FOR THE VOTERS:
‘WHO DO YOU TRUST?’
(Washington, D.C.): Bush Administration officials attempting to manage the unravelling Iraqgate cover-up evidently are taking their cue from the Titanic's...
‘SITUATION NORMAL(IZED)’: WILL BUSH-BAKER GET AWAY WITH PROPPING UP ONE LAST TYRANNICAL REGIME?
(Washington, D.C.): The Bush Administration may be about to lose its mandate to govern. If so, one factor almost certainly...
90/90 HINDSIGHT’: IS PRESIDENT BUSH BEING BLINDSIDED ON IRAQGATE — OR IS HE PART OF THE COVERUP?
(Washington, D.C.): On 10 October 1992, National Security Advisor to the President Brent Scowcroft published a carefully-crafted -- and cynically...