Why China isn’t helping disarm North Korea
(Washington, D.C.): According to today's Washington Post, Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday said that the People's Republic of China's...
National Security Policy
Terrorist arrest shows holes in White House’s Muslim outreach program; warnings ignored
Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian, arrested this week by the FBI as an alleged mastermind and funder of suicide...
Who’s ‘with’ the President?
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush has characterized the choice to be made in this war on terror: "Either you are with...
Post-War Planning
Statement by Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Mr. Chairman and Members...
The Powell report
(Washington, D.C.): On Wednesday, Secretary of State Colin Powell will deliver what may be the most anxiously awaited briefing to...
George Bush’s finest hour
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush has been getting a lot of free advice lately about what he should say in his...
Condi Rice signals the jig is up for Saddam
(Washington, D.C.): The latest indication that the Bush Administration has concluded that Saddam Hussein has blown his last chance for...
A coup won’t do
(Washington, D.C.): The current buzz is that the Saudis, Egyptians, Turks and others are plotting to have Saddam Hussein removed...
Unable to verify, unworthy of trust
(Washington, D.C.): Hans Blix today reminded the world why he was chosen as chief UN weapons inspector by those who...
North Korean scorecard
(Washington, D.C.): The headlines these days are chock-a-block with warnings of nuclear war from North Korea. Scarcely less shrill are...
Will the Bush Team Staff up to Stop a Nuclear Melt-down?
(Washington, D.C.): Ever since North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-Il, broke bad -- acknowledging cheating on his promises to forego nuclear...
The Democrats’ choice
(Washington, D.C.): Leading Democrats have served notice: They intend to run to the right of President Bush in the run-up...
Serious about defending America
(Washington, D.C.): Some good may yet come in the wake of the disastrous decision to permit North Korean ballistic missiles...
Bizarro: Spain intercepts N. Korean Scuds at US urging, but US sends the Scuds to Yemen
It began as perfect teamwork: The US informed Spanish warships in the Arabian Sea about an unflagged North Korean freighter...
Get On With It: Time To Deploy Sea-Based Missile Defenses
Last week, the Pentagon demonstrated for the third time in a row the inherent feasibility of recommendations insistently advanced over...
With friends like the Saudis…
(Washington, D.C.): Suddenly, official Washington is publicly seized with a subject that has, until recently, generally been considered impolitic to...