Speaking truth to power
The speech former House Speaker Newt Gingrich delivered yesterday at the American Enterprise Institute may be one of the most...
National Security Policy
Islamist power play
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush recently nominated a distinguished scholar to serve on the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace....
Who’s next?
(Washington, D.C.): The Bush Administration is obliquely serving notice on Syria that it could be the next country liberated in...
Winning the peace in Iraq
(Washington, D.C.): In the next few days, President Bush will be making decisions that could determine whether a Free Iraq...
‘Embed’ free Iraqis, now!
(Washington, D.C.): It has been clear for many months that the wild card in any campaign to liberate Iraq would...
The fifth column syndrome
(Washington, D.C.): The most traumatic loss the U.S. military has suffered to date in the war with Iraq may, ironically,...
Reagan’s vision
(Washington, D.C.): Twenty years ago this Sunday, President Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address, most of whose contents have...
Losing the way on the Mideast road map?
The so-called "road map" for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord hastily unveiled by President Bush last Friday may have been a...
Moment for truth
(Washington, D.C.): At his Azorean press conference on Sunday, President Bush announced that a "moment of truth" had arrived as...
Get on with it
(Washington, D.C.): Six months to the day after President Bush offered not only Saddam Hussein but the United Nations one...
A friend in need
(Washington, D.C.): It is ironic that France is the principal beneficiary of the vote last Saturday in Turkey's parliament that...
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...
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...