Six attainable transatlantic goals
Ahead of George W. Bush’s presidential visit to Europe next month, transatlantic relations stand at a crucial point. …more
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DEFENCE SPEECH BY MICHAEL HOWARD
By Michael Howard 1. Introduction It’s great to be with you today. Earlier this morning I visited BAE Systems’ Warton factory. I was hugely impressed, as anyone would be, by Warton’s world class technology and the evident pride of everyone working there.
Shifting Atlantic Alliance
HAMBURG — The war between “Old Europe” and America is over, but the old friendship, sonorously invoked for decades, is history, too….more
Election in Iraq: A rout is not an exit strategy
NEW YORK The Iraqi election scheduled for Sunday, only recently viewed as a culmination, is now being described as the inauguration of a civil war. The timing and the voting arrangements have become controversial. All this is a way of foreshadowing a demand for an exit strategy, by which many critics mean some sort of […]
This disaster exposes the myth of the UN’s moral authority
Helicopters are taking off and landing now in the tsunami-shattered villages and towns. The sick are being taken for treatment. Clean water is being delivered. Food is arriving. Soon the work of reconstruction will begin….more