Ever since the Bush administration began to appear as losing in Iraq, the word it has fallen back on has been "diplomacy." How odd, because at the very same time,...
Eight years ago when I was traveling in the Caucasus, I decided to stop in the former Soviet republic of Armenia, a country and people I had long wanted to...
As I have watched the horrors unraveling daily on the streets of Burma these last two weeks, my thoughts have wandered back to my own extraordinary visit to that incredible...
An hour or two's drive south of Norfolk, Va., you pass through a North Carolina swamp where once, it is said, black bears abounded. That is why Blackwater USA, the...
Just when I think that this wonderful nation is beginning to shed some of the incoherence of the last six years, something new comes up and smacks me right in...
Lest you cling to the impression that the Bush administration is looking for ways out of Iraq instead of digging ourselves deeper in, take a look at recent headlines. "U.S....
Just before the first Gulf War, during that ominous fall of 1990, I spent some time in Saudi Arabia and in the region. I explored the eastern provinces, where Americans...
Condoleezza Rice is a woman of extraordinary intellect and has a charming personality. Her manner is usually gracious and ingratiating. I often find myself an admirer. There is only one...
When Russian President Boris Yeltsin took the stage that rainy spring day in 1998 in the elegant marble hall of the Kremlin, he could not have been more charming. Dressed...
George W. is the man who isn't there this spring in Washington. Oh, you can easily glimpse him on TV, his increasingly troubled visage close to obsessive as he repeats...