The world’s enemy within
The slaughter by Islamic fanatics on Wednesday of nearly a dozen French journalists, several of whom I have known for decades, is a bitter, heavy price for that nation to...
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Individual liberties vs. national security
Historians at the Sorbonne once fiercely disputed which of the French Revolution's twists and turns represented the core moment of that upheaval and its voluminous aftermath. The storming of the...
Construction zone: Iran’s nuclear plans
Iran's ayatollahs have issued a stream of defiant messages stressing their determination to join "the nuclear club," no matter what price they may pay in international isolation. Their warnings push...
Challenging the rose-colored memorials
The good that Ronald Reagan did is not being buried with his bones on Friday, as Shakespeare's Mark Antony predicted of Caesar. Reagan's good is being disinterred and magnified. It...
Putting the squeeze on Saudi Arabia
Al Qaeda shook the world on Sept. 11, 2001. Today, Osama bin Laden's terrorist gang is concentrating on shaking Saudi Arabia. Discovering whether this is a change of strategy or...
Righting the course for Bush
Dear Mr. President: Your speech Monday night carried stirring visions of the change you want to bring to Iraq and the Middle East. What it lacked was more important: a...
U.S. abandons moral clarity in Iraq
Americans are too individualistic to have great natural talent for warfare. But they learn from their mistakes quickly and adjust decisively. That point is said to have been made by...
Consequences for Sharon — and the U.S.
With the possible exception of Charles de Gaulle, no friendly foreign leader has complicated modern American diplomacy and strategy more consistently or gravely than Ariel Sharon. He pursues Israel's interests...
UN is on the road to recovery
The United Nations has tiptoed back into Iraq and the good graces of the Bush White House. These surprising developments are worth two cheers and one big, ominous question mark....
Kurds hold the key to their own destiny
"Iraq is our fate," a visiting Kurdish political leader said the other day, as unhappily as a lifer describing a prison term that stretches before and beyond him. But in...