Window for war
(Washington, D.C.): You have to hand it to the Palestinians. They have gotten away with fabricating a nationality where none...
George W Bush
After Arafat
In his press conference last Thursday, President Bush said people who don't believe in the applicability of democracy to the...
Friend and foe
(Washington, D.C.): Throughout history, troops like those brave Americans currently liberating Fallujah have demanded the identity of people approaching their...
W.’s ‘moral values’ drive his foreign policy, too
According to the exit polls, George W. Bush owes his victory to the priority attached by millions of voters to...
Happy birthday, Patriot Act!
(Washington, D.C.): Today marks the third anniversary of President Bush's signature of the bipartisan counterrorism law enforcement legislation known as...
Don’t do it
(Washington, D.C.): At this writing, there is reason to fear the U.S. Congress will capitulate before the election to the...
Debating America’s future
(Washington, D.C.): The fourth and final debate between the Republican and Democratic tickets is supposed to focus exclusively on domestic...
Kerry’s nuclear nonsense
(Washington, D.C.): In last Thursday's debate, the two presidential candidates were asked what represented "the single most serious threat to...
Security obstacles abound
In last Thursday's presidential debate, Democratic contender John Kerry accused the Bush administration of doing too little to secure so-called...
President-making security moms
(Washington, D.C.): Suddenly, the hottest phenomenon in presidential politics is the metamorphosis of women from "soccer moms" to "security moms."...
The War on Terror can’t be won by losing Iraq
(Washington, D.C.): As the polls suggest John Kerry is losing ground against President Bush, he and his new campaign handlers...
Witch-hunt
For weeks now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has carried out in the press a prosecution of individuals and organizations...
The Iranian bomb
(Washington, D.C.): One could be forgiven, in light of recent headlines and press accounts, for wondering precisely who the enemy...
Iranian missile test underscores need for missile defense
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that the Islamic Republic of Iran "carried out a field test of the latest version of...
‘Kerry Republicans’
(Washington, D.C.): The American people seem likely to decide who will be their next President on the basis of whose...
Watch this space
(Washington, D.C.): The past few weeks have seen a number of momentous developments formalized by four highly publicized international events....