Beware ‘Leadership by Consensus’
(Washington, D.C.): There has been a subtle change in the unsolicited advice George W. Bush is receiving from prominent figures...
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Time to Rethink Peacekeeping
(Washington, D.C.): Late last week, President Bush once again showed the stuff of which he is made. On the margins...
The Senate Democrats’ True Colors on Defense
(Washington, D.C.): Since September 11th, some congressional Democrats have imitated chameleons, altering their observable ideological coloration for tactical political advantage....
The ‘Next War’: Will Carl Levin Be Allowed To Leave America Vulnerable To Missile Attack?
(Washington, D.C.): The baying of Congressional Democrats last week over unfounded allegations that President Bush "knew" beforehand about the September...
Veto Bait: Levin Efforts to Replace Treaty -Based Impediments to Missile Defense with Legislative Ones Must Be Thwarted
(Washington, D.C.): On June 14th, the United States will complete its withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, clearing 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,...
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...
Key Legislators Urge Bush Team to Help Liberate Iraq
(Washington, D.C.): A letter to President Bush from leading figures in the House and Senate signals important bipartisan congressional support...
Don’t Legitimate Terrorist Regimes in the Name of Fighting the War on Terrorism
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush is being encouraged by his State Department and some allies to make an extraordinary mistake: In...
Why Do Sens. Dodd and Kerry Want to Deny Otto Reich a Hearing? To Obscure The Extremism’ of Their Own Views
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday's Washington Post reported that Senate Democrats are determined to block the confirmation of President Bush's nominees to...
The Debacle in Durban: U.S. Was Right to Leave, But Really Shouldn’t Have Gone in the First Place
(Washington, D.C.): As the latest, appalling exercise in mob rule that passes for UN- sponsored multinational deliberations grinds towards its...
U.S. Sovereignty, Not Isolationism, is What Guides Bush Rejections of Defective Treaties
(Washington, D.C.): The common if rather sophomoric response to President Bush's recent decisions to disassociate the United States from five...
Don’t Politicize Military Matters
(Washington, D.C.): In the wake of two recent, controversial Bush Administration decisions with far-reaching national security implications, Democratic legislators have...
Bush and the Democrats on Security Policy: Potential Peril — and Opportunity
(Washington, D.C.): Sunday's New York Times featured an article that should serve as a wake-up call to the Bush Administration's...