Arms controllers return
With Al Gore winning an Oscar for propagandizing about an admittedly somewhat hyped threat of global warming, the convergence of...
Bill Clinton
States of denial
Decision Brief No. 06-D 50 2006-10-02 (Washington, D.C.): So, Bob Woodward has become the latest journalist to try to...
Clinton’s soak the rich Americans
For millions of Americans, the spectacle of buffoonery and bombast served up last week in New York by the UN...
The ‘Two Bill’s’ hidden agenda
Today's Wall Street Journal features in the front page of its "Marketplace" Section a typically fatuous article about the "Two...
Hidden agenda
When President Bush sits down with his counterparts from the other Group of Eight (G-8) nations this weekend in St....
Out of control
(Washington, D.C.): Sen. Jesse Helms once famously complained that the problem with the State Department is simple. With all its...
What the world (body) needs now
Decision Brief No. 05-D 16 2005-04-11 (Washington, D.C.): The early returns are in: A number of retired U.S. diplomats, George...
Rummy’s bad rap
(Washington, D.C.): Donald Rumsfeld is one of the most experienced men in Washington. So he is presumably not surprised at...
The anti-strength candidate
On the face of it, last week's Democratic National Convention was a gavel-to-gavel paean to the philosophy of peace through...
The Tenet resignation should come as a relief
The announcement that CIA Director George Tenet had decided to spend more time with his family was received with mixed...
In search of a scapegoat
Ahmed Chalabi has suddenly become a kind of Arabian piñata, presented to the world as everything from a con-man, felon...
I.S.O. a scapegoat
(Washington, D.C.): Ahmed Chalabi has suddenly become a kind of Arabian piata, presented to the world as everything from a...
The case for liberating Iraq
(Washington,D.C.): The following are two important contributions to the debate over the wisdom and necessity of the American-led effort to...
The threat we’re ignoring now
The televised hearings convened last week by the 9/11 Commission proved to be one of the most interesting and valuable...
Taking down Bush
For months, Democratic partisans have made one thing perfectly clear: While they hoped to run for, and win, the White...
The billion-dollar Haiti debacle– and Aristide’s paid agents who made it happen
America's billion-dollar Haiti debacle can be traced to influence-peddling payments that former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made to Washington operators. It...