Madman of Chu

This week's meetings between presidents Hu Jintao of China and George W. Bush of the US have drawn new press attention to Sino-US relati...

The release of journalist Jill Carroll has understandably sent a wave of relief through all concerned observers of Iraq. Though her return...

This Sunday (3/26) a joint Iraqi-US Special Forces team conducted an assault in which 16 people were killed, 3 were wounded, and one man bei...

Discussion of late in media and government circles about whether or not Iraq is "on the brink" of civil war or will ultimately exp...

Josh Narins' pointed comments about my last entry on "Reading Signs in the Rubble in Iraq" (and its "Update") persua...

Nicholas Kristof reports in today's New York Times on a poll taken by Zogby of 944 soldiers currently serving in Iraq. Asked "How l...

The destruction Wednesday of the Golden Mosque in Samarra gives the lie to myths from both "the left" and "the right" (o...

The uproar over the Jyllands Posten "Muhammed cartoons" is the latest chapter in the tragic-comic deterioration of relations betwe...

Hamas' victory in Palestinian elections will no doubt injure the peace process and bring further suffering to both Israel and Palestine....

The stroke which has so severely incapacitated Ariel Sharon this week is a tragedy not only for him personally but for all of Israel and Pal...

Yesterday's election in Iraq gives new cause for hope in the ultimate success of the Coalition mission. By all initial accounts the vot...

My last post was read (I am happy to note) by a number of critical eyes across the blogosphere, particularly Michael Turton in The View from...

Speaking in Japan this week President Bush urged China to look to Taiwan as a model of political democratization. Though there are few occa...

President Bush yesterday accused Democrats in Congress of undermining the Iraq war effort by raising questions about how his administration ...