What To Do About North Korea’s Nuclear Threat: Execute The ‘Osirak’ Remedy
An ominous new milestone in the passivity and disengagement of American foreign policy under the Clinton Administration is being established...
National Security Policy
Russia Hints at Blackmail Over Arms
The Russian government of Boris Yeltsin is presenting U.S. President Bill Clinton with what Marlon Brando in his "Godfather" role...
Rep. Gonzalez Breaks The Code On ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’: Will Clinton Repeat Bush-Baker’s Financial Malfeasance?
(Washington, D.C.): In an historic address on the House floor on 4 March, Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez -- chairman of...
‘The Full (Dead) Weight of U.S. Diplomacy’: Clinton Sells Out The Bosnians
(Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration has failed its first test of leadership in the field of foreign policy: In announcing...
No Way to Run a Railroad — Or National Security: Clinton Cleaver Endangers Effective Military
(Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration has dropped the second shoe on the U.S. military. First, the President tried to impose...
Thanks, But No Thanks: Clinton Should Back Bosnia in Rejecting Vance-Owen ‘Peace In Our Time’
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton's baptism of fire in foreign affairs looms before him. The long-suffering people of Bosnia, those elsewhere...
US Strategic Defense Program Is Too Important To Be Entrusted To Officials Who Would Eviscerate It
Candidate Clinton said during the campaign that a "fresh assessment" of the threats to U.S. interests was needed, including those...
Red Ink Rising: Congress Needs To Take A Hard Look At New Loans To Defaulting Moscow
U.S. taxpayers are facing a rapidly-rising pool of red ink marring the books of two U.S. government lending agencies --...
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...
Say It Ain’t So: Clinton’s Pledge To Restore Moral Compass In Foreign Policy Abandoned Before The Inauguration?
(Washington, D.C.): In the course of a press conference yesterday, President-elect Bill Clinton sounded a breathtakingly conciliatory note toward Saddam...
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...
The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience: The New Chemical Weapons Treaty Is A Dangerous Delusion
Samuel Johnson once said that second marriages represent "the triumph of hope over experience." The same applies to much of...
How Not to Lend To A Bankrupt Russia: Eximbank Energy Deal Should Be Iced, Reworked
The terms of a multi-billion dollar series of loan guarantees to the Russian oil and gas sector in preparation by...
‘IN THE NAME OF GOD, GO’ IN: TIME TO END THE WEST’S ‘KITTY GENOVESE’ SYNDROME ON BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA
(Washington, D.C.): However inconvenient it may be in light of the political transition underway at the moment, the United States...
REVOLVING DOORS: EXIMBANK OFFICIAL’S SCANDALOUS SELF-DEALING IS A BLOW TO U.S. TAXPAYERS, ‘REDCARPET’ FOR RETURNING RUSSIAN HARDLINERS — AND THEIR AMERICAN FRIENDS
(Washington, D.C.): The outgoing Bush Administration is poised to extend some $2 billion in U.S. Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) loan guarantees...
AS PREDICTED, A ‘DECEMBER SURPRISE’ FOR U.S. TAXPAYERS; G-7 DEBT RESCHEDULING REWARDS KREMLIN FOR GAIDAR’S OUSTER
(Washington, D.C.): As predicted by the Center for Security Policy in July 1992, the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations...