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...
National Security Policy
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...
Worried About Civilian Casualties in the War on Terror? Don’t Allow Terrorists to Masquerade as Non-Combattants
(Washington, D.C.): The Bush Administration has been roundly assailed at home and abroad over its decision to treat individuals captured...
Chinese Enron? Bank of China’s Planned New York Stock Exchange Listing Collides with Systemic Corruption Revelations
(Washington, D.C.): A $2-5 billion initial public offering (IPO) and New York and Hong Kong stock exchange listings of the...
Dangerous mixed signals on the ‘Axis of Evil’
What's going on here? In last week's State of the Union address, President Bush solemnly declared: States like and their...
Navy Missile Defense Success Offers Bush a Chance to Issue a Challenge for the History Books
(Washington, D.C.): Tomorrow night, President Bush has a chance to make not only a memorable speech, but an historic one....
Who Pulled the Plug on the Chinese Bugs’?
(Washington, D.C.): A highly classified U.S. operation that promised to provide important -- perhaps even geopolitically explosive -- insights into...
Now, confirm Secretary Reich
The latest of many laudable examples of President Bush's commitment to principle and fortitude in the face of political adversity...
What to Do About Saudi Arabia
(Washington, D.C.): The recent law suit by an American servicewoman ordered to wear head-to-toe "cover" and submit to other indignities...