Now‘s the Time to Address the Costs of a Golan Deal
(Washington, D.C.): "Premature." That's the word Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and other Administration officials are using to finesse legitimate...
Syria
Don’t Give Syria Life-support in Exchange for a Phony Peace
(Washington, D.C.): In the midst of the hype over the latest "breakthrough" in the so-called Middle East "peace process" --...
Are U.S. ‘Investments’ in the Mideast ‘Peace Process’ Giving the Arabs a New War Option?
(Washington, D.C.): One of the predictable upshots of today's meeting between Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Israeli Foreign Minister...
A.E.I. Postmortem Shows Senate Wisely Rejected C.T.B.T. — For Substantive Reasons, Not Due to Partisanship or ‘Isolationism’
(Washington, D.C.): The American Enterprise Institute performed a signal pubic service in the immediate aftermath of the Senate's defeat of...
Clinton as the Anti-Reagan: Appeasement of North Korea Would ‘End the Cold War’ by Capitulation, Not Roll-Back
(Washington, D.C.): Amidst the many, pathetic explanations served up by Clinton Administration spokesmen to rationalize, if not explain, its latest...
Is President Clinton Serious About Fighting Terrorism?
(Washington, D.C.): Few areas of security policy have seen a more pronounced disconnect during President Clinton's tenure than the fight...
‘Dueling Egos’ Bad for U.S. Foreign Policy
(Washington, D.C.): Just what we need: Competing, high-visibility trips overseas this week by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the...
The Case Against Holbrooke
(Washington, D.C.) The pressure is building on the Senate to confirm Richard Holbrooke as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations....
The Next U.S. Peacekeeping ‘Boot’ To Drop: The Golan Heights?
(Washington, D.C.): The full costs of President Clinton's latest diversion of the U.S. military into a distant and highly problematic...
Sen. Inhofe Documents Clinton’s Culpability in Chinagate
(Washington, D.C.): One of the most courageous and principled security policy practitioners in elected office today is Sen. Jim Inhofe...
‘Peace in Our Time,’ Take Two
(Washington, D.C.): At this writing, the particulars of the deal struck with the Serbian government by Strobe Talbott, Victor Chernomyrdin...
Cox Report Underscores Abiding Nuclear Dangers, Should Caution Against Efforts that Would Exacerbate Them
(Washington, D.C.): Today's release of the declassified version of the 900-page report, unanimously adopted last December by a select House...
Assad’s Syria is No Reliable ‘Partner for Peace’
(Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration has made clear that, as soon as the Israeli election process is finished, its campaign...
Russia’s Gazprom Implicated In New Bid to Expand Rogue State Energy Production, Provide Life Support To Saddam Hussein
(Washington, D.C.): Even by Persian Gulf standards, the deal that Saddam Hussein has reportedly reached with his longtime enemy, Syrian...
Warily Watching China
By James Webb
The New York Times, 23 February 1999
An oddly nonlinear debate has emerged in Washington regarding the implications of China's growing power. Those who are concerned mainly...
The New ‘Giant Sucking Sound’: Clinton’s Crumbling Iraq and Russia Policies
(Washington, D.C.): It turns out there is a "giant sucking sound," after all. At the moment, it is not coming...