Nicolas Sarkozy is a charming man, and thank god for it. As relations with Britain cool down in the wake of Blair’s departure from office, it seems a new spirit of friendship has risen between the United States and …

“Oh billions of dollars, is there any problem you can’t not solve?” Again, John Stewart’s humor comes back to me. The day after Secretary of State Rice announced that the U.S. would continue offering billions of dollars of …

Despite repeated human rights violations and a general declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan, Condoleezza Rice announced today that the U.S. will continue offering billions of dollars in military aid to General Musharaff’s questionable government.

Rice’s message …

At the very least its a very good thing that Turkey has agreed to suspend military offensives into northern Iraq against the Kurds until after the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met with President Bush to discuss the …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a little embarrassed this week to find that the support she believed she had obtained for a bill that would classify the 1915 mass killing of Armenians as genocide melted away. This came in …

The actions of Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq and south-eastern Turkey threaten a dangerous balance of power in the region. Turkey is - and has been for decades - a key ally in NATO and a vital base of …

Essentially re-requesting the amount he wanted for the war this fiscal year by requesting the difference (and then some), Bush is playing on our feelings of common sense and sympathy to obtain the funding that General Petraeus recommended for the …

When the Chinese Communist Party Leader of Tibet lodges a strong complaint about the Dalai Lama receiving the Congressional Gold Medal - our nation’s highest civilian honor - we can nod understandingly and move on without any change in feeling …

The Communist Party leader in Chinese Tibet, Zhang Qingli, is condemning the close relations that the United States has maintained with the Dalai Lama and today, in the Chinese Communist Party’s 17th National Congress, he essentially forbade the U.S. from …

Congress seems to be operating with the same level of international acumen as Bush this week. Why, why, would Congress specifically focus on the World War I-era killings of over 1 million Armenians now? Why take the time …