SAN FRANCISCO -- The conventional wisdom in Washington is that it's
pointless or reckless for Americans to speak with Iraqi officials. But
some on Capitol Hill are beginning to think otherwise.
AUSTIN, Texas -- I realize it's early days for this sort of thing, but I already have a nomination for dumbest sentence of the decade. You have a mere eight years to top this one, so you'd better get cracking.
AUSTIN, Texas -- The economy is a mess. We are now in the second dip of a double-dip recession. ("Looks like a W," say the economists, another reason why economists are not famous for their humor.) Six and a quarter trillion dollars has...
You might remember the old movie "Twelve Angry Men," starring
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb and E.G. Marshall. Most of the dramatic
film takes place inside a jury room as a dozen people deliberate at
the end of a murder trial. It's...
BAGHDAD -- When Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz described
the box that Washington has meticulously constructed for Iraq, he put it
this way: "Doomed if you do, doomed if you don't."
AUSTIN, Texas -- (SET ITAL) "What's so interesting is that he's given in at the ideal moment: really early, when it messes us up." -- Kenneth Pollack, an Iraq expert at the Brookings Institute, on Saddam Hussein's agreeing to weapons...