The Washington Times 

That’s some feud between the White House and Francis Fukuyama, the Johns Hopkins professor and author of “The End of History and the Last Man.” Here’s Mr. Fukuyama writing in or quoted in the New York Times sniping at the Bush administration, and there’s the White House firing back by e-mail quoting Mr. Fukuyama’s past statements in contrast to his current ones.

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Questions for Ukrainians and Georgians

The Washington Times

Six years ago, the government of Lithuania invited me to Vilnius for a summit meeting of Central and Eastern European states geographically dispersed from Estonia in the north to Bulgaria on the Black Sea. The audacious purpose of that meeting was to announce that they had decided to work cooperatively on their common goal of integration into Western institutions, especially NATO. Rather than compete with one another to see which, in the post-communist period, deserved to be first to cross the line into full membership in the West, they would form a mutual support structure in pursuit of the quickest integration of all.

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…But Iraqis embrace the democratic process

The Washington Times

What makes a civil war worthy of that designation? Or rather, when is violent conflict sufficiently widespread to warrant the label “civil war”? That would seem to be the question Iraq posed in the aftermath of the bombing of the Shi’ite mosque on Feb. 22.

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