‘Stop Payment’: The Case For Supporting Yeltsin By Not Disbursing Another $2.5 Billion Blank Check
Last week, the U.S. Congress passed and sent to President Clinton an appropriations measure containing a further $2.5 billion contribution...
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A mandate for Israel
Has a conflict evolved into peace when fighting between the opposing armies has ceased? In one sense, yes; but a...
The Big Picture Is Bad
EVALUATING the Israel-PLO agreement requires weighing hopes against risks, for Israel's concessions could someday endanger its security. The hopeful argument...
‘The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience’: Israeli Weariness Begets Strategic Peril
The agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization formalized at a White House ceremony today amounts to a phenomenon...
The Case Against the Halperin Nomination — White Paper
2 August 1993 The Honorable Bill Clinton President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington,...
Time for A ‘Sanity Check’ On Syrian Intentions: Assad’s Continuing Malevolence Should Be Warning To Israel, US
(Washington, D.C.): With the resumption of open hostilities between Arab terrorist organizations operating from Syrian-controlled Lebanon and Israeli security forces,...
Remarks By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. Before The Library of Congress Symposium On Nuclear Testing
Washington, D.C., 19 July 1993 "RECKLESS ABANDON: THE CLINTON NUCLEAR TEST BAN -- AND NUCLEAR FREEZE -- ENDANGER NATIONAL SECURITY"...
‘New Democrat’ Watch #8: Clinton Bungee-Jumping On Nuclear Testing Endangers National Security
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton used the 2 July edition of his weekly radio address to the nation to announce new...
‘Wake-Up Calls’ On Terrorism: Saddam’s Plot, Clinton’s Response Reveal Shape of Things To Come
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton is to be commended for his decision to strike Iraq in retaliation for Saddam Hussein's aborted...
Sorry Boris: Cocom Restrictions Are Not Cold War Relics But Vital Anti-Proliferation Measures
(Washington, D.C.): On 12 June, Russian President Boris Yeltsin served notice that one of his major agenda items for the...
People and Equipment, Wear and Tear: We can’t solve the deficit problem with more defense spending cuts
BY: Frank J. Sullivan The Washington Post, June 21, 1993 In recent years, defense spending has been cut about 30...
‘New Democrat’ Watch #2: A CTB Is One “Old Democrat” Agenda Item Clinton Should Eschew
(Washington, D.C.): Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's announcement at American University of his intention to...
A ‘No-Brainer’: Rep. Berman’s ‘Free Trade In Ideas’ Bill Must Not Be Allowed To Strengthen Tyrants
Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA) pulled a fast one last week -- a bit of legislative derring-do that despots around the...
It’s Official: US Abdication Of International Leadership Is State Policy, Not Mere Ineptitude
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Peter Tarnoff yesterday dispelled any lingering doubts about the Clinton foreign policy. According...
Clinton’s New Mideast ‘Containment’ Strategy: Start By Punishing Saddam For Trying To Kill George Bush
Among the many distressing aspects of what passes for Bill Clinton's foreign policy -- from the abdication of leadership concerning...
Excerpts from a Speech before the Near East Institute, 20 May 1993 by Martin S. Indyk, Special Assistant the President and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs
The Clinton Administration's policy of "dual containment" of Iraq and Iran derives in the first instance from an assessment that...