In the 1980s, when I traveled several times to Baghdad to cover the bitter Iran/Iraq war, for moments of joy I would slip over to the Iraqi National Museum and...
Despite passing references to links to Al Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction, the real intent of the Bush war party has always been to reconfigure the Middle East. First...
With the war now a little more than a week old, I am searching, searching, searching. No, I am not looking for Iraqi infiltrators in our midst, nor for terrorists...
America stands on the brink of a vast unknown, facing a world in which its principles, its values, its institutional commitments and its worldview have been bared for all the...
This was supposed to be the crucial week just before the war, when American and "allied" leaders were closing in on Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Instead, circumstances seem to be...
Doubtless it is my own fault. Attribute it to too many years overseas in the Beiruts, Bombays and Burundis of the world. Too many romantic novels and dark, swashbuckling, sloe-eyed...
The war fever here is growing with such intensity, fed by so many eerie agendas, that serious analysts must stop day by day, and sometimes hour by hour, to see...
Of all the strange things happening in the world today, one of the strangest was the election this week of Libya--yes, Moammar Gadhafi's bizarre and berserk revolutionary desert kingdom--to the...
Iraq is now being held in "material breach" of still another United Nations resolution. Secretary of State Colin Powell said so forcefully last week in an official no-nonsense reaction to...
The White House showered him with attention, doing everything but throwing flower petals at his feet. The Pentagon treated him worshipfully, as an equal, flattering him with in-depth briefings on...