Clinton Legacy Watch # 10: Administration Ineptitude, Appeasement Put Saddam, Primakov Back in Driver’s Seat
(Washington, D.C.): While it may be some time before the full extent of the damage done by the Clinton Administration's...
Middle East
Giving Saddam Space
The Wall Street Journal, 17 November 1997 Now that Saddam Hussein has once again turned his pathetically impoverished country into...
‘Iraqi Roulette’: Dodging A Bullet Must Not Be Confused With Ending The Threat Posed By Saddam
(Washington, D.C.): For seven years, the West has been an unwilling participant in a variation on the fabled game of...
Take Out Saddam
(Washington, D.C.): As President Clinton casts about in search of a response to Saddam Hussein's latest acts of defiance, one...
Center Roundtable on the Future of the Mideast ‘Peace Process’ Illuminates, Responds to the Need for Fresh Thinking
(Washington, D.C.): Today, in the aftermath of the latest incidents of terrorism in Israel and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's...
Martin Indyk: Wrong Man, Wrong Job
(Washington, D.C.): Tomorrow, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will consider the nomination of Martin Indyk to serve as Assistant Secretary...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 4: Meltdown of Dayton Accords is But The Latest Proof That ‘Peace Processes’ Produce No Peace
(Washington, D.C.): Events of the past week suggest that President Clinton's favorite general -- Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SHAPE) General...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 4: Meltdown of Dayton Accords is But The Latest Proof That ‘Peace Processes’ Produce No Peace
(Washington, D.C.): Events of the past week suggest that President Clinton's favorite general(1) -- Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SHAPE) General...
Conflicts That Can’t Be Resolved
By Irving Kristol Wall Street Journal, 05 September 1997 Three more bombs went off in Jerusalem yesterday, killing at least...
Blood On Our Hands: Concessions Demanded By U.S. ‘Peace Processors’ Are Endangering Israeli Security, Lives
(Washington, D.C.): The victims of today's murderous terrorist bombings in Jerusalem are more than the latest statistics that make the...
With ‘Partners for Peace’ Like Arafat, Who Needs Enemies?
(Washington, D.C.): Just when it seemed impossible for Yasser Arafat to demonstrate more clearly his contempt for the Middle East...
Say It Ain’t So: Ross’ Trilateral Intelligence Gambit Threatens US Security Interests
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton's Middle East Special Envoy, Dennis Ross, capped four days of feverish shuttle diplomacy in the region...
Denial Is No Basis For Securing A Durable Mideast Peace
(Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration's manic reaction to the latest international crisis is, unfortunately, all too typical. Its effort to...
‘Peace Process’? Bombs Say More Than Words Do
By Robert L. Pollock Wall Street Journal, 31 July 1997 BRUSSELS -- The Middle East is endangered, and not primarily...
Clinton ‘Legacy’ Watch #3: Saddam Lives to Fight Another Day
(Washington, D.C.): Like prestidigitators bent on distracting observers from the locus of the real action, the Clinton Administration would have...
Give peace a chance: No more blank checks for Arafat
The House of Representatives is expected today to consider a singularly important amendment to the Fiscal Year 1998 Foreign Operations...