In deciding to comment on the conflict in Gaza, I’m reminded of the old joke from the time of the siege of Sarajevo, in which someone is alleged to have...
Writing about the choice of Leon Panetta for head of the CIA, Andrew Sullivan wrote in the Times of London that [t]he first name floated for CIA head was John...
Chris Brose is bristling at Hillary Clinton’s invocation of “smart power” in her testimony the other day: Now, America needs many things right now, but another contribution to the foreign...
In view of the fact that even the State Department couldn’t spell the civilian administrator’s name.
I have a special affinity for stories about well-meaning environmental initiatives backfiring on the well-meaning environmentalists: BANGKOK, Thailand – It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all...
So the former general counsel of the U.S. Army tells Bob Woodward: “We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani,” said Susan J. Crawford, in her first interview since being named convening authority of...
