The Washington Times

Ignoring the law by engaging in domestic spying? Flouting the law? Willfully violating the law? No, on the contrary. The Bush administration’s record is quite clear and consistent: Somewhere inside the locked filing cabinets of this administration’s top lawyers are perfectly clear and cogent legal arguments on behalf of, dare one say, every single official action the administration has ever taken.

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The Washington Times

Was that a hallucination we suffered last week at the quagmire? All those millions of, what were they, happy Iraqis, joyous Iraqis, turning out to vote? Well, not just to vote, but to elect a government in accordance with the constitution they approved two months ago, the first truly democratic government in the history of the Arab Middle East? And not just the Shi’ites and Kurds, whose suffering under the regime of Saddam Hussein was especially harsh, but also Sunnis, who dominated the old Ba’athist government and have been trying to figure out where they fit into the new constitutional order.

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The Washington Times

I have come to the capital of elegant pessimism in order to address the question “When should the U.S. leave Iraq?” at the French Center on the United States’ estimable annual conference on what’s going on in America.

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The Washington Times

A year after the Orange Revolution saw millions of Ukrainians take to the frozen streets of Kiev to protest a rigged election, ultimately leading to the nullification of its results and the election of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko to the presidency, I found myself in a seminar room at Donetsk National University in eastern Ukraine, answering questions students posed in generally excellent English on the future of their country and its place in the Western world.

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