Libya, Newest Security Council Member
Meet the newest members of the United Nations Security Council: Vietnam, Croatia, Costa Rica, Burkina Faso, and Libya, all elected yesterday for two-year terms starting next January 1. The United...
View ArticleMichael Scheuer Watch #3: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
We already have incontrovertible evidence that former CIA officer Michael Scheuer, who is now busy with a career equally divided between casting aspersions on American Jews and making a fool of...
View ArticleMichael Scheuer Watch #10: The Cheese Danish Affair and Ron Paul
Our hero has surfaced. As I predicted, he has been compelled to move from the mainstream to the margins. The latest sighting has occurred not in one of the mass-media outlets where until recently he...
View ArticleRussia to the West: Please Don’t Defend Yourself
Russia and the United States are no closer to agreement on a missile shield for Europe after a high-level meeting in Moscow on Tuesday. “On the matter of principle the positions of our two sides have...
View ArticleNATO Disappoints
Last week’s NATO summit was disappointing on many levels. The member states refused to endorse a membership action plan for Ukraine or Georgia, thus seeming to give in to hysterical Russian...
View ArticleRE: The Bracing Realism of Richard Holbrooke
Max Boot’s appreciation of Richard Holbrooke called to mind a sense among the military officers working the Balkans problems in 1995 that Holbrooke was “old school.” Most of us had come of age...
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