Russian Footprints
The Kremlin may be the main winner in the Lebanon war. Israel has been attacked with Soviet Kalashnikovs and Katyushas, Russian Fajr-1 and Fajr-3 rockets, Russian AT-5 Spandrel antitank missiles ...
Who Is Raúl Castro?
So who is Raúl Castro? While Western experts speculate that he may plan on shifting Cuba toward collective leadership and democracy, that’s nothing but wishful thinking. To be sure, I ...
Romania’s Rebirth
In March 2005, the just-elected Romanian president Traian Basescu stepped into Washington as head of a country that — for the first time in 60 years — had a government ...
Bolton’S Bravery
I know the United Nations like the back of my hand. And I have good reasons to believe we badly need a tough guy like John Bolton to handle the ...
Welcome, President Basescu!
President Bush’s doctrine of freedom is changing the world. Eight million Iraqis voted on January 30 in defiance of the terrorists. Post-Arafat, the Palestinians seem to be in a new ...
No Peter The Great
Vladimir Putin looks more and more like a heavy-handed imitation of Yuri Andropov–does anyone still remember him? Andropov was that other KGB chairman who rose all the way up to ...
Romania’s Rise
On June 8, the U.N. Security Council approved the transfer of sovereignty to the new Iraqi government. Twenty days later, this long-oppressed country was living in unprecedented freedom. Few, if ...
A Matter of Trust
The CIA is our first line of defense against terror and tyranny. As every expert has warned after 9/11, years of hysteria-laden, politicized public investigations since the Vietnam era have ...
Kerry’S Soviet Rhetoric
Part of Senator John Kerry’s appeal to a certain segment of Americans is his Vietnam-veteran status coupled with his antiwar activism during that period. On April 12, 1971, Kerry told ...
Khaddafi’S “Conversion”
As chief of Romanian foreign intelligence, I worked closely with Libya’s Muammar Khaddafi before I defected, in 1978, to the West. I was Khaddafi’s handler as he geared up ...