May 2, 2010

The Reemergence of German Dominance in Europe

The European Union was supposed to change all that, but it is a hard-boiled geopolitical maxim that nationalism trumps transnationalism whenever national interest -- military, economic or energy -- is at stake. Unfortunately, for Europeans, it is a f...

May 21, 2009

The Alice in Wonderland World of the Greens

"Curiouser and curiouser", said Alice.  Not an unnatural response to the wholesale departure from reality she experienced at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. And we have precisely the same head-scratching response to the refusal of green id...

March 6, 2009

A Nuclear Iran: Obama's Dire Strait

The economic downturn may have given the Obama White House its first major crisis, but the fast-looming Iran nuclear crisis is about to give him his second. It was some of the Administration's highest ranking officials, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, ...