From Bucharest to Baghdad
(Washington, D.C.): Last December, the people of Romania elected a new president, as opposition leader Traian Basecu claimed victory over...
National Security Policy
Hobson’s choices (cont.)
At last, the debate has been joined about the future direction of America's nuclear deterrent - or indeed, whether there...
A treaty with al Qaeda?
In a recent column for National Review Online, Andrew C. McCarthy pointedly asks: "Should we make a treaty with al...
Hobson’s choices
(Washington, D.C.): A few weeks ago, two Republican Congressmen - Reps. Duncan Hunter of California and James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin...
An African vortex
Although not widely considered an African faith, roughly one fifth of the world's adherents to Islam reside in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
False friends
(Washington, D.C.): During the recent presidential campaign, Senator John Kerry assailed President Bush for alienating key U.S. allies, evidence he...
Kasparov warns of Putin’s threat to freedom
In the 1980's, World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov used his enormous prestige in the former Soviet Union to help bring...
Watch this space #1: Mark Helprin dissects the China threat
(Washington, D.C.): Official Washington and much of the rest of the world may be focused on the War on Terror...
‘Wither’ Israel?
(Washington, D.C.): The plight of Israelis today calls to mind the tongue-in-cheek prayer of Tevye, the hero of "Fiddler on...
Window for war
(Washington, D.C.): You have to hand it to the Palestinians. They have gotten away with fabricating a nationality where none...
Friend and foe
(Washington, D.C.): Throughout history, troops like those brave Americans currently liberating Fallujah have demanded the identity of people approaching their...
W.’s ‘moral values’ drive his foreign policy, too
According to the exit polls, George W. Bush owes his victory to the priority attached by millions of voters to...
October surprise: Latest bin Laden tape confirms effectiveness of Bush War on Terror
(Washington, D.C.): According to yesterday's New York Post, there was considerably more to the videotape featuring Osama bin Laden that...
The choice
If the conventional wisdom is correct, today's presidential election will be tightly contested and ultimately decided by the electorate's concerns...
Hatchet job
For most of the 2004 campaign, Senator John Kerry has been trying to obscure the true nature of his proclivities...