In order to begin restoring the credibility of the United Nations, Mr. Annan should step down.
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United Nations Scandal: Kofi Annan Aide Shredded Thousands of Documents
"Hell no!" was Kofi Annan's bullish response when asked last week if he would resign over the oil-for-food scandal. The UN secretary-general's office was in full spin mode following the release of the eagerly awaited Volcker Interim Report on questions of conflict of...
Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez: Castro’s Mini-Me
'One darned thing after another': That's how former Secretary of State Dean Acheson once defined foreign policy. The latest "darned thing" for the United States is Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez. For no apparent reason, the leftist strongman is arming...
China Threatens U.S. Alliances
While the Bush administration continues to push and celebrate significant successes for democracy in the Middle East, China is on an opposing mission in Asia, where it continues to block the spread of freedom. The most recent target of Chinese diplomatic pressure is...
Iraqis Should Look To American Founding Fathers When Writing Their Constitution
On December 15, 1791, 213 years ago, the American Bill of Rights was ratified. Thus ended a long and difficult process by which the American people first liberated themselves from tyranny and then established the first government in history founded on individual...
Bush’s Betrayal of America: The Iraqi Elections
President Bush claims that holding elections on January 30 will bring Iraq a step closer to freedom, an outcome allegedly vital to America's security. But the Iraqi election will bring neither freedom to Iraq nor security to America. Consider the beliefs of the Iraqis...
Free Elections in Iraq: Victory and Defeat
The defeatists have been defeated. Remember all the political outcries that the Iraqi elections should be postponed because it would be impossible to hold elections with terrorism rampant throughout the country? Fortunately, most Iraqis do not see the American media,...
America’s Compassion in Iraq Is Self-Destructive
The horrific suicide bombing in December of a U.S. mess tent near Mosul and the assassination on Jan. 10 of the deputy chief of Baghdad police--the second Iraqi official murdered in five days--are further indications that the war in Iraq is worsening. Things are going...
Soccer Moms Could Teach Indian Ocean Nations Something About Communication
It has been said that lack of communication lies at the bottom of most human problems. This is certainly true of what will likely become [one of] the largest human tragedies in recorded history, the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The U.S. Geological Survey and its 120...
A Huge Election in Iraq
The election coming up in Iraq may turn out, in the long view of history, to be even more important than our own recent election. Both elections represent a country at a crossroads, with a choice of very different paths to take -- for many years to come -- according...
Kofi Annan and the United Nations
Kofi Annan is in deep trouble.The aura of invincibility that has surrounded Annan in his six-year tenure as United Nations secretary general has been shattered, and it is increasingly likely that he will go in the next six to 12 months. The man who undeservedly won...
United Nations Relief and Works Agency: Beyond the Headlines
The headlines are shocking enough: "Child Shot in UNRWA School Dies." "Israeli Gunfire Hits 11-Year-Old Girl …in an UNRWA School." So, too, are the accompanying statistics: "On June 1, two 10-year-old boys in UNRWA's Al-Umariye Elementary Boys' School in Rafah were...
John Kerry in Vietnam: A Charlatan?
Men who have been in combat together often form a bond that lasts long after the war is over. It is hard to think of a single example of men who faced enemy fire side by side and who later publicly denounced each other. The glaring exceptions are the men who served...
Democracy is No Guarantee of Freedom for Iraq
A free Iraq (or Afghanistan, or Iran for that matter) would not have to exactly duplicate the American system of government, but it would have to duplicate our basic protection of the individual against the majority, i.e., against a democracy.
Kofi Annan Should Step Down From the United Nations
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's latest interview with British television, in which he dismissed the serious allegations of Oil-for-Food improprieties raised in the Duelfer Report, undermines his credibility and impartiality with regard to the Oil-for-Food...
The Islamic States of America?
The hardest thing for Westerners to understand is not that a war with militant Islam is underway but that the nature of the enemy’s ultimate goal. That goal is to apply the Islamic law (the Shari‘a) globally. In U.S. terms, it intends to replace the Constitution with the Qur’an.
The Power Struggle in China: Military Strongman Jiang Zemin vs. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao
The power struggle in Beijing between China's military strongman, Jiang Zemin, and the country's two reformist government leaders, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, is of momentous importance to the United States and East Asia. As the Chinese Communist Party...
Veterans vs. Kerry on Vietnam: Part 3
A President of the United States should know all sides of an issue. But he cannot be on all sides of an issue. He cannot keep flip-flopping like John Kerry. Despite attempts to depict criticisms of John Kerry by the Vietnam Veterans for Truth as something whose sudden...
Veterans vs. Kerry on Vietnam: Part 2 of 3
In addition to two key books about John Kerry -- Douglas Brinkley's pro-Kerry book "Tour of Duty" and John O'Neill's anti-Kerry book "Unfit for Command" -- there is another book that would be well worth reading -- if you can find a copy. It is John Kerry's own book,...
Veterans vs. Kerry on Vietnam: Part 1 of 3
Senator John Kerry's running mate, Senator John Edwards, has said melodramatically: "Ask the men who served with him in Vietnam!" But now that men who served with Kerry in Vietnam are coming forward and contradicting Kerry's version of what happened there, Senator...
Thoughts on Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II
According to its publisher, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin's controversial new book In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror in support of the WWII incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent argues that...
Two Versions of Vietnam
It is a painful reflection on the political atmosphere today that, in an era when nuclear devastation may strike American soil within our lifetime, courtesy of terrorists supplied with nuclear weapons by North Korea or Iran, we are arguing about what did or didn't...
United Nations Wages War on Capitalism
As if our nation's free-market ideal isn't damaged enough -- witness, if you will, the generally lengthy permitting process for businesses and the prevalence of zoning laws, environmental mandates, eminent domain abuses and hefty tax burdens that plague our would-be...
Bush to United: Fly Smarter
"Let me tell you a secret," said former Vice President Al Gore recently, President Bush is a "moral coward." Moral coward? Why the latest attack? Well, Gore accused the president of an unwillingness "to stand up and say 'no.' . . . He will not choose the public...
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