Return to Mideast First Principles
(Washington, D.C.): One thing is for sure. The Bush Administration is going to have to come up with a better...
National Security Policy
‘Mr. Arafat, Renounce This Map’
(Washington, D.C.): In 1987, a President of the United States confronted a great evil and found a simple, yet powerful,...
A Seriously Bad Idea: U.S. Monitors’ and Military Forces Have No Place in Palestine’
New York Times' Tom Friedman Comes Unglued (Washington, D.C.): George Santayana once described a zealot as someone who redoubles his...
Has Israel Become an ‘Inconvenient’ Ally?
(Washington, D.C.): Last year, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon precipitated a firestorm of criticism from the Bush Administration by suggesting...
What to Do About Colombia
(Washington, D.C.): Afghanistan's Taliban regime relied heavily on cash from illegal drug production and trafficking to keep itself in power...
The Bush Nuclear Posture Review: Adults at Work on Restoring the Credibility of America’s Deterrent
(Washington, D.C.): In the wake of September 11, millions of Americans have taken comfort from the fact that a group...
Witness to Evil: German Doctor Endorses Bush Depiction of North Korea, Opposes Engagement’ with Its Brutal Regime
(Washington, D.C.): The father-son Kim dynasty that has subjected North Korea for over five decades to a form of totalitarian...
What Not to Do About Iraq: Send in Inspectors
David Kay Calls to Mind Why They Have not, and Cannot, Work (Washington, D.C.): It is a safe bet what...
What is Wrong with Arafat’s Picture?
Source: Palestinian National Authority (Washington, D.C.): The editorial page of today's Wall Street Journal features a map to which the...
House Armed Services Committee Needs to Restore, Strengthen Pentagon Role in Critical Export Control Decisions
(Washington, D.C.): Late today, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is expected to consider an amendment offered by its chairman,...
The Saudi Scam II: Krauthammer Warns Against Bid to Spring Arafat While He Continues to Foment Terror
(Washington, D.C.): In a characteristically brilliant essay in today's Washington Post, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer describes the near-term objective of...
The Saudi Charm Offensive
(Washington, D.C.): Apparently, it all started with a column by the New York Times' Thomas Friedman in early February urging...
Where’s O.S.I. When We Need It?
(Washington, D.C.): On the same day Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld felt obliged to shut down the Pentagon's recently established Office...
Rumsfeld’s Now Hear This’ on Iraq
(Washington, D.C.): It was easy to see the old naval aviator in Don Rumsfeld as he appeared on the Sunday...
Where’s the Outrage?’ Tenet’s Man Can’t Conduct an Independent Intelligence Inquiry
Can House and Senate Intelligence Committees? (Washington, D.C.): There is one word for those who thought the House and Senate...
Cover Up: The Senate-House Investigation into Intelligence Failures to Be Run by George Tenet’s Long-time Subordinate
(Washington, D.C.): So much for a rigorous review of the policy and other failures that contributed to the U.S. intelligence...