To his sorrow, a U.N. devotee saw the Oil for Food fiasco firsthand.

Sanctions will not persuade the Assad regime to surrender power, and talk about an embargo on luxury goods is a cruel joke.

For the first time in 20 years, Saudi Arabia has named an ambassador to Iraq. For years the Saudis resisted U.S. entreaties to take this step, and the current relationship between these two most important Arab countries in the Gulf has not been warm, so the timing is curious and...

Biographics for 12/16/02 event.

If the United States and its allies, if any, once again target the civilian infrastructure of Iraq in the gross terms which were done in 1991, then the population of Iraq will see us as their enemies, and we will have earned their hatred.

Over the last decade, Washington has given progressively more priority to counterterrorism and antiproliferation and progressively less priority to energy security and to assisting U.S. oil companies.

What will be the effect of the fall of Saddam Hussein on the politics of the Middle East?

The cost of the Iraq war was high. Almost 4,500 American servicemen and women died, and many more were injured. American taxpayers paid billions of dollars. Was the Iraq war worth it? Yes.