Category Archives: Foreign Policy
Democracy and the Trump Election
Newspaper headlines and television pundits are screaming that Donald Trump’s election is a threat to “our democracy.” A strange charge following an election when a clear majority of voters chose the winner. Isn’t that consistent with the very definition of … Continue reading
The Biden-Stalin Doctrine
One death in Russia; tens of thousands in Gaza Continue reading
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO AMERICA?
Rummaging through my accumulated papers, I just came across the English translation of a speech I delivered in Czech on July 4, 1982, when I was American ambassador in Prague. At that time Czechoslovakia was ruled by a Communist regime … Continue reading
“SELF DEFENSE” DOES NOT LICENSE GENOCIDE
Genocide is a crime—not just a “war crime,” but a crime against humanity. No genuine friend of Israel could support the carpet bombing of Gaza, the order for more than a million Gazans to leave their residences on territory Israel, … Continue reading
MUSINGS … “RUSSIAGATE” HYSTERIA
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. That saying—often attributed to Euripides, though not found in his extant writings–comes to mind most mornings when I bring in the home-delivered New York Times and read the headlines of the … Continue reading