In the end, it all comes down to weather. The war hawks in the upper echelon of the Bush administration feel the weather window on an Iraq invasion will soon be closing. We learned 12 years ago that the best time to send an army into the Babylonian desert is in early February. Early February […]

I went down to the Salvation Army Tuesday afternoon; it could as easily have been a terminal at JFK International Airport. People from every nation, women and men, old and young overflowed the rooms and spilled into the hall. They were in the dining room, the kitchen, in the “Corps Hall” or Salvation Army chapel. […]

The Bush Doctrine, as enunciated by the president, says the United States may launch a pre-emptive war against any nation, at any time, if the president determines that nation is a threat to the interests of the United States. There has been – and continues – discussion about what that means for international relations. But […]

I’m an American mutt. My German surname, which few people pronounce correctly on the first attempt, tells only half the story. My mother’s family is Irish; both parents are the children of immigrants. In the time and place I grew up, it was common for families to have mixed ethnicity, but strong ties to diverging […]