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American History October 2003 Dinesh D'Souza |
President Ronald Reagan: Winning the Cold War With the invasion of Grenada, Cold War history began a dramatic turn that would lead to the demise of an empire. Ronald Reagan's clarity of vision and unwavering beliefs led to the dismantling of America's most formidable foe. |
Salon.com December 13, 2002 Andrew Sullivan |
Booby prize Idiocy of the week: Jimmy Carter, Nobel laureate, defender of dictators. |
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Joyce Barnathan |
The Cowboy Who Roped In Russia Reagan repeatedly upped the ante -- and convinced Moscow he meant business. |
Reason November 2003 Glenn Garvin |
The Gipper and the Hedgehog How an "amiable dunce" outsmarted the world -- a review of Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, by Peter Schweizer |
Parameters Summer 2008 Jeffrey Record |
Retiring Hitler and "Appeasement" from the National Security Debate History has proven that negotiating with terrorists and radicals won't work. |
Reason June 2007 Daniel McCarthy |
Revising Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History, by John Patrick Diggins, poses the question: Was the 40th president a peace-loving moderate? |
Salon.com September 19, 2002 Robert Scheer |
Iraq: The phantom menace George W. Bush's war plans in the Middle East have more to do with elections than global security. |
Salon.com September 25, 2002 Robert Scheer |
The arrogance of the Bush Doctrine The president's new foreign policy will only anger other countries, and provoke them to take their own "preemptive action." |
Scientific American March 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Threats of War, Chances for Peace Preventing the spread of war will depend on strategies that recognize the shared interests of adversaries. |
Salon.com August 3, 2002 Anthony York |
Crazy like a desert fox Saddam's plea to the U.N. is completely phony. But it could be effective. |
Reason August 2003 Bailey et al. |
Forcing Freedom Can liberalism be spread at gunpoint? |
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher Hemmer |
Responding to a Nuclear Iran What should American foreign policy be if current efforts to discourage Iran from developing nuclear weapons fail? |
Reason February 2003 Steve Chapman |
Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared." |
Salon.com October 11, 2002 William M. Arkin |
Sept. 11 and wars of the world Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them. |
Reason January 2003 Mueller & Lindsey |
Should We Invade Iraq? A debate |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Robert Scheer |
When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is... |
Salon.com March 20, 2002 Hadani Ditmars |
Denis Halliday The former head of the U.N.'s humanitarian program in Iraq says an American invasion would be an international crime -- and would make the U.S. even less safe... |
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Joyce Barnathan |
Inside The Great Thaw The education of Ronald Reagan is one of many absorbing recollections in Jack F. Matlock Jr.'s book, Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended. |
Wired Nicholas Thompson |
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret. |
Parameters Summer 2004 |
Editor's Shelf Authors examine the relationship between the military and the society it serves. |
Salon.com January 2, 2003 Robert Scheer |
Bush's illogical foreign policy The nuclear threat from North Korea reveals the limits of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine. |
Salon.com October 24, 2002 Robert Scheer |
How to defeat the Axis of Evil The United States has more powerful weapons than planes and tanks: Trade, aid and Hollywood. |
Reason February 2004 Steve Chapman |
Bush's Bad Foreign Policy Unilateralism and remaking the world don't mix. |
Reason March 2009 |
Letters Are you better off than you were 40 years ago?, what's the matter with libertarians?... |
Salon.com September 24, 2002 Anthony York |
Bush doctrine makes waves overseas International reaction to new policy of preemptive strikes casts a suspicious eye on "imperialist" designs. |
Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2002 Ken Silverstein & David Isenberg |
Political Intelligence What happens when U.S. spies get the goods -- and the government won't listen? |
Salon.com October 9, 2002 Robert Scheer |
Bush vs. the CIA As the president plays up the threat Saddam Hussein poses to America, the CIA plays it down. |
Salon.com August 6, 2002 Robert Scheer |
The Baghdad double-whammy George the Younger sees a chance to boost his sluggish poll ratings and avenge daddy's big political mistake. |
Salon.com December 20, 2001 Asla Aydintasbas |
The midnight ride of James Woolsey The former CIA director presents himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age, trying to waken America to its greatest threat -- Saddam Hussein. Should we be listening? |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 James K. Wither |
British Bulldog or Bush's Poodle? Anglo-American Relations and the Iraq War There are many factors beside Blair's leadership that helped to shape the British government's role in Iraq. This article addresses these issues and places them in historical context. |
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Walczak & Crock |
Colin Powell: On Iraq, Bush, and His Job Those who gloat at the idea of Bush asking other nations to help rebuild Iraq "better not gloat too soon." There will be plenty of contracts for foreign companies "to get a piece of the action." |
BusinessWeek September 9, 2010 Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Tony Blair The former British Prime Minister, whose memoir, A Journey, has drawn protests in Dublin and London, defends the invasion of Iraq |
Parameters Spring 2007 Ryan C. Hendrickson |
The Miscalculation of NATO's Death NATO's history, its ability to overcome crises, an analysis of NATO expansion, its institutional flexibility, and evidence of renewed interest in the alliance by many of the world's great powers. |
Parameters November 2004 Franklin Eric Wester |
Preemption and Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq This article demonstrates that the use of military force by the Bush Administration against the regime of Saddam Hussein does not meet the ethical criteria for "preemptive war" set forth in the classical Just War tradition. |
Salon.com September 5, 2002 Andrew Sullivan |
Isn't it Rich? It's fine for liberals to oppose a war with Iraq. But they shouldn't lie about why and when President Bush began to advocate it. |
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 |
"You Can't Afford To Let Threats Gather" (extended) Condoleezza Rice on how Bush would address security issues in a second term. |
Salon.com August 2, 2002 Anthony York |
The Iraq non-hearings Defense retreads Cap Weinberger and Sandy Berger fail to bring any substance to Washington's aimless war debate. |
Salon.com December 11, 2002 Robert Scheer |
America's weapons of mass destruction If weapons inspectors were to look at the United States, what would they find? |
Salon.com June 18, 2002 Laura Miller |
Before Baghdad burns The author of a new book on Iraq cautions that a U.S. invasion to get rid of Saddam Hussein could be even more dangerous than his weapons of mass destruction. |
Parameters Summer 2005 Harry S. Laver |
Preemption and the Evolution of America's Strategic Defense In practice as much as in policy, America's defense doctrine must include more sophisticated and nuanced diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian programs, efforts designed to reduce the underlying sources of terrorist motivation and recruitment. |
Salon.com October 16, 2002 Robert Scheer |
War and peace President Bush could learn a thing or two from Jimmy Carter. |
Reason June 2002 |
Letters On "Wither Iraqi Sanctions?"... |
Salon.com September 24, 2002 Ian Williams |
Bush to Arab world: Drop dead Driven by right-wing ideologues and his own zeal, President Bush has taken Ariel Sharon's side in the Middle East even while plotting a war with Iraq. Foreign policy experts say that's a dangerous combination. |
Reason March 2002 Matt Welch |
The Politics of Dead Children Have U.S. sanctions against Iraq murdered millions? |
Salon.com October 17, 2002 |
"I'm not sure which planet they live on" Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy. |
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2001 Tim Dickinson |
Going Antiballistic Five entertaining, if unscientific, takes on missile defense... |
Salon.com September 6, 2002 Asla Aydintasbas |
The Kurdish dilemma Barham Salih, prime minister of Northern Iraq's Kurdistan regional government, talks about the recent attempt on his life, why he wants a regime change in Baghdad and what should happen in the days after Saddam is deposed. |
Salon.com September 30, 2002 Arianna Huffington |
Osama who? The White House's focus on Saddam is meant to divert attention from America's still-AWOL Public Enemy No. 1. |
ifeminists February 11, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Iraqi Women Brutalized by Saddam Before and after Sept. 11, politically correct feminists crusaded for Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban. By contrast, little outrage has been expressed over the treatment of Iraqi women under Saddam Hussein. |
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Anthony York |
How big a war? Hawk Paul Wolfowitz wants the U.S. to attack Iraq. Colin Powell doesn't -- and nobody knows who has Bush's ear... |