Bush’s Reykjavik Moment
(Washington, D.C.): The U.S. president meets in an unusual location with his Kremlin counterpart. Amidst high expectations of a summit...
National Security Policy
Don’t Breathe New Life into the A.B.M. Treaty
(Washington, D.C.) President Bush has an unprecedented opportunity at his upcoming meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin to fulfill his oft-repeated...
It’s Official: The A.B.M. Treaty Regime Harms U.S. Missile Defense Programs — So End It, Already
(Washington, D.C.): Last week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that two upcoming tests of U.S. missile defense systems would...
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 Casey Legacy: Go On Offense’ in the Intelligence War on Terror
(Washington, D.C.): America's war on terrorism just got an important boost. It came in the form of a reminder by...
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...
Let Them Eat Lemons’: Bush Should Resist, not Rehabilitate, Those on the Wrong Side of History and the War on Terror
(Washington, D.C.): It is sometimes said that the cunning, when dealt a setback, or "lemon," often try to turn it...
What President Bush Should Say Tonight
(Washington, D.C.): George W. Bush will give what may be the most important speech of his life tonight before a...
Don’t Legitimate Terrorist Regimes in the Name of Fighting the War on Terrorism
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush is being encouraged by his State Department and some allies to make an extraordinary mistake: In...
The Death of Illusions
(Washington, D.C.): One widespread and pernicious illusion died a fiery death on September 11: The notion that America -- the...
Why Do Sens. Dodd and Kerry Want to Deny Otto Reich a Hearing? To Obscure The Extremism’ of Their Own Views
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday's Washington Post reported that Senate Democrats are determined to block the confirmation of President Bush's nominees to...
The Debacle in Durban: U.S. Was Right to Leave, But Really Shouldn’t Have Gone in the First Place
(Washington, D.C.): As the latest, appalling exercise in mob rule that passes for UN- sponsored multinational deliberations grinds towards its...
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...
A case Study: Critics of Secret U.S. Biodefense Research Underscore Mindless Arms Control’s Perniciousness- Timely Insight into Fight over Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday's New York Times gave front-page, above-the-fold treatment to a news article revealing that the Clinton and Bush...
Strategy of a Thousand Cuts
(Washington, D.C.): It is probably, as the Communists are wont to say, "no accident, Comrade" that every day brings some...