By Azi Paybarah 7:20pm

Foreign Affairs

Nadler's Warning to Obama

Liberal West Side Rep. Jerry Nadler highlights another potential rift between Obama and the left, this time, over the use of military force in Libya.

Nadler:

“The President has an obligation under the Constitution to seek the approval of Congress for any use of military force unless there is an imminent threat to the United Read More

By Christian Lorentzen 3/02/11 12:16am

Internal Memo

Internal Memo: Muammar Qaddafi

Let’s say I have $60 billion in assets, not frozen but liquid. And let’s say that after 42 years of glorious rule and personal enrichment, and a few weeks of pointless, no doubt Western-inspired bloodshed, I decide enough is enough. What if I moved to New York? What could that $60 billion buy me?

I Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 1/12/04 12:00am

Despite Bush’s Victories, Dangers Lurk on Horizon

The big story at the tail end of last year was Muammar el-Qaddafi’s announcement that he was shelving Libya’s program to build atomic weapons. He gave his reasons during a phone call to Italian president Silvio Berlusconi: “I will do whatever the Americans want, because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid.” Read More

By Bruce Feirstein 4/24/00 12:00am

No Crash. Nobody Threw Up.

Your diarist is filing this dispatch from Dyess Air Force Base, in Abeline, Tex. I’ve been invited here by the Air Force to fly on a B-1 supersonic bomber in order to help flesh out the characters in the screenplay I’ve been working on. So far, as movie-business perks go, this one ain’t bad-and it Read More