The Washington Times

When you mention a U.S. military alliance facing trouble deciding where to go from here and divided over such questions as what threats it faces and how to deal with them, the case that probably comes to mind is the NATO alliance and the bitter transatlantic division over what to do about Iraq. Would that our difficulties were as confined as that. Across a different ocean, our 50-year-old military alliance with South Korea is also facing trouble, this time over the question of what to do about North Korea’s apparent determination to acquire nuclear weapons.

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The Washington Times

One big question on the minds of politically attuned Californians these days is what people in Washington make of the recall venture here – the process itself, the ugliness of the campaign, the landslide election of Arnold Schwarzenegger. I tell them that the view from the east is mired in condescension. Which is too bad, because Californians have taught us some useful political lessons.

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The Kay Report suggests he had one, and it almost worked.

The Weekly Standard

DAVID KAY’S interim report on the investigation into Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs leaves open as many questions as it answers. Exactly what was underway and at what stage of development is still unknown. But it does establish to a certainty the critical point that Saddam had every intention of reconstituting chemical, biological, and nuclear programs as soon as he could. And this, in turn, allows us to bring some informed speculation to bear on what has been one of the great puzzles of the war: What was Saddam Hussein’s strategy?

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The Washington Times

One of my fellow dads angled up to me on the sidelines of our daughters’ soccer game two Saturdays ago, gave me a wry smile and asked whether I thought this leak scandal had legs.

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The Washington Times

The interim report issued last week by David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group [ISG] looking into Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs, ought to dispel all doubt on the central point leading to the decision to go to war: The Saddam regime belonged in the category of those uniquely dangerous to peace and stability. The security concerns on which this war of prevention were based were all too real.

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