Bush Foreign Policy Settles into Weird State of Denial
It's an alarming sign for U.S. foreign policy when Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden says, as he did last month on NBC's Meet the Press, that, personally, he...
Kim Jong-il
Feeding North Korea’s Madness
Here we go again. Amid warnings of an impending "food crisis" in North Korea, the Obama administration is working to send yet more big subsidies, in the form of free food, to the totalitarian reg...
Op-eds
Just Move the UN Human Rights Council to Syria
With the Assad regime murdering hundreds of protesters, it’s patently grotesque that Syria might get a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council. And yet, when the General Assembly vo...
Op-eds
Please, Not Another Jimmy Carter Jaunt to North Korea
It would be an act of mercy for the planet, were Jimmy Carter to hang up his carry-on bag and devote the rest of his days to annotating his post-presidential grocery lists, or maybe sign up for D...
Op-eds
Beware the Brokering of Egypt’s ElBaradei
Now that Hosni Mubarak has resigned as dictator of Egypt, what role in the perilous transition ahead might be played by former United Nations nuclear chief and Nobel laureate, Mohamed ElBaradei?...
Op-eds
So When Does Saudi Arabia Say Thank You to Israel?
It’s a good bet that in Tehran and Pyongyang, officials will be poring with great interest over every detail in a lengthy piece in Sunday’s New York Times, all about the “digita...
Op-eds
From North Korea, Lessons About Syria
Commenting on North Korea’s newly revealed uranium enrichment facility, and its subsequent unprovoked shelling of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, former US president Jimmy Carter off...
Op-eds
North Korea and the Audacity of Nuclear Extortion
If they gave prizes for the art of nuclear blackmail, North Korea's Kim Jong Il would right now be hoisting his trophy for lifetime achievement. Call it the Plutonium-Uranium-Switcheroo Shak...
Op-eds
Kick North Korea Out Of The U.N.
"Amputations without anesthesia" is the headline some news outlets have culled this week from a new Amnesty International report on "The Crumbling State of Health Care in North Korea." That title...
Op-eds
Boxing Iran?
President Obama’s policy of “engagement” with Iran can be viewed as an experiment. There was at least a chance that it was only President Bush — that swaggering, unilatera...
Op-eds
Kim Jong Il’s ‘Cashbox’
Despite all the pomp and nuclear summitry, North Korea keeps sliding down President Barack Obama's to-do list. Yet something must be done. The threat here is not solely North Korea's ow...
Op-eds
A Modest Proposal For Israel
Here's the latest in our occasional series of how-to memos on global diplomacy. Memo: To Israel From: Big Brother Consulting Service, Washington, D.C. Executive Su...
Op-eds
Win Over Washington One Nuke At A Time
To: The Interim Government of Honduras, Attention Interim President Roberto Micheletti From: The Hope and Change Global Consulting Service, Washington,...
Op-eds
Axis Of Opportunism
The bad old Axis of Evil is back in the news. That's not because President Barack Obama has resurrected the label, but because he's now planning to hold direct talks with its two surviv...
Op-eds
Living on Obama Beach
"Obama Beach." That phrase was a slip of the tongue by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, speaking last Saturday in Normandy, alongside President Barack Obama and other leaders gathered in hono...
Op-eds
What Obama’s Mideast Trip Says About The U.S.
Americans woke up this week to news that President Obama is now describing the U.S. as--if you take into account the number of Muslim Americans--"one of the largest Muslim countries in the world....
Op-eds
Lives For Sale
Probing President Obama's resolve, North Korea is now cranking its nuclear extortion routine into high gear. Following its April 5 illicit test of a ballistic missile, Kim Jong Il's reg...
Op-eds
We Need Action,Not Words, On North Korea
President Barack Obama's hollow response to North Korea's April 5 illicit missile test amounts to another score for North Korea's Kim Jong Il. Kim has again defied the so-called in...
Op-eds
Korean Lessons
The response to Kim Jong Il should be more missile defense, not less.
Op-eds
Try Real ‘Change’ Toward North Korea
We shouldn't ''engage'' with a government that kills, suppresses and starves its citizens.