Some months after the fall of Saddam Hussein, I found myselfin Kuwait sharing a taxi from the airport to my hotel withan Iraqi journalist who had just come from Baghdad …
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For the first time since 1952—since Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House—neither the incumbent president nor his vice president is in the running for the top job in …
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Gen. John P. Abizaid, the most senior military officer of Arab descent to serve in the US armed forces, disagreed with President Bush over the president’s Iraq strategy—and he is …
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When the current political impasse is resolved and the ongoing restoration of Beirut resumes, the Lebanese government – whichever one ends up being in charge – should turn a cluster …
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Be careful what you wish for. President George W. Bush and his close circle of neoconservatives wanted regime change … and they got it. Okay, it was not exactly what …
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As the Bush administration gets its feet under the desk for a second term, it appears to be payback time for those who opposed the war in Iraq. Our Washington Correspondent …
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While the war in Iraq divided the United States and “Old Europe,” the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri helped bring about a rapprochement of the trans-Atlantic alliance …
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One could be forgiven for thinking that given the unfolding debacle in Iraq, US President George W. Bush may have preferred to be a little more circumspect in his inaugural …
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It’s been ten months since President George W. Bush signed the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act (SALSA) of 2003 into law, hoping to pressure Syria into adopting a …
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The Middle East is lately undergoing economic and political changes that imply the need to rethink Lebanon’s posture in this volatile geopolitical neighborhood. The two main impulses to consider are …