In the Arena

Five Years After

Here is the column I wrote five years ago as the war began. In retrospect, I made several obvious mistakes–namely, the assumption that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. The most regrettable sentence in the piece is this one: Hans Blix’s inspection regime wasn’t nearly as muscular as it needed to be. That was wrong. [...]

John McCain’s Foreign Policy

John McCain’s visit this week to Europe and the Middle East will include a number of meetings with world leaders, who will be using those sessions to reacquaint themselves with the GOP nominee and to get a sense of what international relations would be like in a McCain Administration. At the Los Angeles Times, Paul [...]