"Last July, I predicted the imminent fall of Paul Bremer, the American Viceroy in Baghdad. Bremer was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. It only gets worse."

"Since the Talibaan can come and go easily across the long and porous border at will, it is convenient for Afghanistan (or anyone else) to put the blame on Pakistan in the same manner India does. One may well ask, why are US and Afghan forces not able to stop the infiltration?"

"Bush is bogging down the nation in wars across the globe that cannot be won by application of the strengths of American military power."

"Members OF the Palestinian Legislative Council are up in arms about the presidential appointment of an eight-member "emergency government," ostensibly instituted to ease a looming political crisis and threats from Israel."

"Standing on a platform in the central traffic circle of the West Bank city of Ramallah, a number of speakers urged a crowd of roughly 300 to continue the Palestinian intifada that completed its third year on September 28, 2003."

"Justice Breyer, in defending Israel’s arbitrary practice of barring defendants from choosing a lawyer, whom the Israelis suspect might carry “terror instructions” from behind bars, made this dubious statement, “Maybe to have a lawyer not of your choice (is better) than none at all.” In light of the Sixth Amendment’s right of a defendant to the “assistant of counsel for his defense,” in a criminal case, of his or her own choosing, Breyer’s view on this important constitutional issue is truly appalling."

"...Secular Arafat and religious Hamas do not even like each other, and they never have. It's been a delicate balancing act to prevent civil war but Hamas is hardly in Arafat's circle of advisors."

"Will the Democrats be able to organize their own recall before the next election?"