January 23,2004 00:00:00 AM
God bless the Democratic Party’s primary voters in Iowa. They may have rescued American chances of succeeding in Iraq and even winning ...
January 19,2004 00:00:00 AM
Can anyone look at what is happening — Palestinians, gripped by a collective madness, committing suicide, and Israelis, under a leaders...
January 16,2004 00:00:00 AM
While visiting Istanbul, Turkey, the other day, I took a long walk along the Bosporus near Topkapi Palace. There is nothing like standing at...
January 09,2004 00:00:00 AM
Airline flights into the United States are cancelled from France, Mexico and London. Armed guards are put onto other flights coming to Ameri...
December 29,2003 00:00:00 AM
WARSAW, Poland I found the cure. I found the cure to anti-Americanism: Come to Poland. After two years of traveling almost exclusively to W...
December 22,2003 00:00:00 AM
If we ever run out of room to store our gold in Fort Knox, I know just the place to put it: the new US Consulate in Istanbul. It looks just ...
December 19,2003 00:00:00 AM
Of all the fascinating reactions to Saddam Hussein’s capture, the one that intrigues me most is the French decision to suddenly offer s...
December 12,2003 00:00:00 AM
Whenever I think of President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, the image that comes to mind is that famous scene in the movie The Shi...
December 08,2003 00:00:00 AM
Anyone who has listened to President Bush’s recent speeches about the need to promote democracy in the Arab-Muslim world can’t but...
December 01,2003 00:00:00 AM
I stood on the sidewalk in London the other day and watched thousands of antiwar, anti-George W Bush, anti-Tony Blair protesters pass by. Th...
November 28,2003 00:00:00 AM
Memo to: President BushFrom: Saddam Hussein Dear Bush: Well, it’s been a while since we last communicated. It’s not easy getting t...
November 24,2003 00:00:00 AM
We’ve all had our ups and downs since 9/11, but last week’s events in London tested even my congenital optimism. I was a participa...
November 21,2003 00:00:00 AM
So I step off the plane in London and the British customs guy sees on my form that I’m a journalist and asks, ‘‘Is it true th...
November 14,2003 00:00:00 AM
Reading the latest poll from the European Union, which indicates 59 per cent of EU citizens now consider Israel the greatest ‘‘thr...
November 10,2003 00:00:00 AM
If President Bush wants to get a better handle on the problems he’s facing in Iraq and the West Bank, I suggest he study the speech mad...
November 07,2003 00:00:00 AM
For the past six weeks the news from Iraq has felt like the movie Groundhog Day. I get up each morning, fire up my Internet and read that a ...
October 31,2003 00:00:00 AM
Since 9/11, we’ve seen so much depraved violence we don’t notice anymore when we hit a new low. This past Monday’s attacks in...
October 24,2003 00:00:00 AM
Republicans seem to think they don’t have to think when it comes to Iraq. They only have to applaud the president and whack the press f...
October 17,2003 00:00:00 AM
There was a headline that grabbed me in The New York Times the other day. It said, ‘‘Cheney lashes out at critics of policy on Ira...
September 26,2003 00:00:00 AM
The US war on terrorism suffered a huge blow last week—not in Baghdad or Kabul, but on the beaches of Cancun. Cancun was the site of th...
September 19,2003 00:00:00 AM
It's time we Americans came to terms with something: France is not just our annoying ally. It is not just our jealous rival. France is becom...
