Talk about "speaking truth to power." The Bush administration, with its obsessive secrecy and its demands that none of its believers break rank for fear of being banished in shame,...
Last year at this time, as one of the stranger years for our nation came to a close, America was poised at the edge of uncertainty. The Bush administration was...
The night that Moammar Gadhafi decided to divest himself of unconventional weapons, five people asked me at a party: "Doesn't this show that, in the end, force works?" So, the...
Few Americans were not overjoyed at the capture of Saddam Hussein and we naively expect other peoples to feel the same. But what about the internal psychic and spiritual world...
American war-planners believe they are managing a conflict that is largely contained within Iraq, one that will end when we have defeated a finite number of enemy combatants there. They...
Imagine that four of the most respected men in America--say, Alan Greenspan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Colin Powell and George Tenet--gave an interview together to The New York Times and called the...
One can say without exaggeration that this has been a big week for news from Iraq--and not at all good news. Ambassador Paul Bremer--remember how he was supposed to be...
There is one question on everyone's lips here these days: "All right, what should we do next?" The issue, of course, is Iraq, and the questions about the next stage...
On the surface, the intelligence scandal sweeping through Washington seems to be a rather simple case of failure at the top. The CIA told the White House that Saddam Hussein...