Articles

Marooned In the Cold War: An Exchange between Mark Danner and Richard C. Holbrooke

January 1, 1998

I thought Mark Danner’s essay, “Marooned in the Cold War,” made a strong case against NATO enlargement, cogently presenting the negative arguments.

Marooned In the Cold War

December 31, 1997

Three years have passed since I stood in a tiny market in Sarajevo, notebook in hand, gazing through a chaos of smoke and running feet at the scores of dead heaped about the blood-slick earth.

Clinton, The UN, and the Bosnia Disaster

December 18, 1997

In the bitter wind and cold of late December 1995, shortly before the coming of Orthodox Christmas, the Serb fathers of Sarajevo began trudging toward the graveyards.

America and the Bosnia Genocide

December 4, 1997

To the hundreds of millions who first beheld them on their television screens that August day in 1992, the faces staring out from behind barbed wire seemed powerfully familiar.

Still Living in a Cold War World

December 1, 1997

Three years have passed since I stood in a marketplace in Sarajevo, notebook in hand, gazing through the chaos of smoke and running feet at the scores of dead heaped upon the earth.

The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe

November 20, 1997

Scarcely two years ago, during the sweltering days of July 1995, any citizen of our civilized land could have pressed a button on a remote control and idly gazed, for an instant or an hour, into the jaws of a contemporary Hell.

Iran-Contra in the Light of History (discussant)

July 17, 1997

I think I’d like to begin by asking about Iran-Contra the question the Jesuits like to ask when they see a difficult problem, which is: What is its quiddity? What is its “whatness”? What separates it from everything else – in particular, from other scandals?

Staying on in El Salvador (Introduction)

June 5, 1997

Inward-gazing and self-absorbed, Americans tend to learn about the world only during times of crisis.

How the Foreign Policy Machine Broke Down

March 7, 1997

For a half-dozen years, Iran-contra has haunted American political life. The ghost arose anew on Christmas Eve, thanks to President Bush’s pardons, and it is fated to reappear one day soon when Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel, releases his final report.