By the time the Israeli Cabinet meets today to consider Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s recommendation that the UN cease-fire resolution be accepted, Israel’s major new thrust toward the Litani River
In the war of hotheads, the cool heads lose out. Radicalism invokes the worst in us. It makes us angry, hateful, aggressive and crazy. Those with cooler temper and wiser brains cannot make themselves
When my electricity returned at around 3 a.m. yesterday, I turned on the BBC World Service television. There were a series of powerful explosions which shook the house — just as they vibrated across
Shortly after 9/11 attacks on World Trade Center in New York and other places in the US, President George W. Bush described and later retracted our fight against terrorism as a “crusade.” In his first
So five years after 9/11 are we back to the beginning? Not quite. Complexity has been replaced by simplicity, but the magnitude of ambition remains steadfast. However, there are subtle changes in the
From Afghanistan to Latin America, recent history suggests that the US policy of funding militias that operate outside a national government structure has negative long- and short-term consequences.
