The Case Against Holbrooke
(Washington, D.C.) The pressure is building on the Senate to confirm Richard Holbrooke as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations....
National Security Policy
Hillary’s ‘Conversion’ on Jerusalem Does Not Reflect Her Husband’s Policy — or Her Own, Long-held Views
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday, First Lady/proto-Senate Candidate Hillary Clinton demonstrated anew the behavior that prompted Bill Safire to describe her as...
Administration Move To Normalize Relations with Castro’s Cuba Bucks Tide of History, Business
Will Gambit Be Next Source of Conflict Between Clinton and Gore? (Washington, D.C.): The truth is finally out. An unnamed...
Timmerman Offers Fresh Evidence That D.O.E.’s Front Office Needs to be Cleaned-Out, Not Just Rearranged
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson finally threw in the towel on his doomed effort to persuade bipartisan...
The Next U.S. Peacekeeping ‘Boot’ To Drop: The Golan Heights?
(Washington, D.C.): The full costs of President Clinton's latest diversion of the U.S. military into a distant and highly problematic...
A Job for C.F.I.U.S.: Proposed Chinese Buy of U.S. Telecommunications Assets Needs National Security Scrub
(Washington, D.C.): On 23 June, Hutchison USA announced its investment of $957 million into the combined telecommunications company of Voicestream...
Iraq Update: Saddam Is Getting Out of His ‘Box’: Is America Going to Stand Idly By As He Does So?
(Washington, D.C.): On Wednesday 23 June , the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs of the Senate Foreign...
Will Clinton and Yeltsin Succeed in Springing the A.B.M. Treaty Trap?
(Washington, D.C.): News item: "For the first time, Russia has agreed to discuss changes in the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty...
Moscow Stiffs Western Bankers, While Paying Oligarchs And Eurobond Holders: A Sign of Things to Come in Russia?
(Washington, D.C.): According to the 5 June edition of The Economist magazine, Russia is seeking to delay by six months...
Elder Statesmanship: Dole Says ‘No Deals With Milosevic’
(Washington, D.C.): What a difference a week makes! Last Thursday, the Washington Post published an intemperate op.ed. by Victor Chernomyrdin...
Saving Lieutenant Colonel McCallum
(Washington, D.C.): The good news on the ominous Chinese technology-acquisition front 1 is that Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has promised...
Checkmate: Milosevic’s Indictment Must Abort Clinton & Co.’s Misbegotten and Morally Repugnant Efforts to Deal with Him
(Washington, D.C.): History may regard today's indictment of Slobodan Milosevic and four of his senior subordinates on war crimes charges...
Kissinger, Legal Scholars Wrap Up Pivotal Hearings on the A.B.M. Treaty; Establish Need, Legal Right to Defend America
(Washington, D.C.): The Senate Foreign Relations Committee took testimony today concerning one of the most important national security issues of...
Cox Report Underscores Abiding Nuclear Dangers, Should Caution Against Efforts that Would Exacerbate Them
(Washington, D.C.): Today's release of the declassified version of the 900-page report, unanimously adopted last December by a select House...
Wall Street Journal‘s Melloan Inveighs Against Russian Aid
(Washington, D.C.): The recently completed Senate Armed Services Committee mark-up of the Fiscal Year 2000 defense authorization bill includes calls...
Critical Mass: Woolsey, Lehman Cite Concerns with C.T.B.T.
(Washington, D.C.): Evidence continues to mount that President Clinton's intention, announced in his State of the Union address last January,...