Word: transatlanticism
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It's back to "Gerhard" for Mr. Bush - after a year of icy silence during which the U.S. President refused to lay eyes on German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. The feud was not just over policy; it was personal. Last fall, Schröder saved his sinking campaign by...
Rarely has a book been preceded by as much fevered speculation and murderous ill will as Martin Amis' Yellow Dog (Jonathan Cape; 288 pages). It's out this week in the U.K. and already getting more ink than David Beckham on a slow news day. That's because Amis, 54...
We are accustomed to the Washington tradition of slow leaks about political deceit that turn into a torrent as elements of the bureaucracy step over each other in the race for the exits, and then finally a scandal worthy of the suffix "-gate". Of course the imbroglio over the Bush...
The transatlantic connection means it's not just in Washington that the case for going to war in Iraq is being subjected to increasingly traumatic evidentiary tests - if anything, it's happening a lot more quickly, and brutally, in Britain, Australia and other nations. Just this week, for example, Tony...
None of this has particularly deterred President Bush, and why would it when polls find that upward of 80 percent of Americans still believe the Administration's prewar claims on Iraqi WMD and one-third even believe WMD have actually been found in Iraq. It would appear that President Bush...