ET: In the past people assumed the United Nations would play a vital role in bringing human rights abuses into line. But as we see, the United Nations continues to allow countries with known abysmal human rights records full participation in their human rights committees.
BH: The United Nations organization is worthless. In fact [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under Ronald Reagan and recepient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, died Thursday .
This piece by Kirkpatrick appeared in the February 22, 1999, issue of National Review.
A good many Americans still have trouble understanding why the United States needs a missile defense — this despite the [...]

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America’s post-Cold war China policy was premised on the hope that multidimensional engagement with Beijing would result in a strong, rich, peaceful, and democratic China. Almost two decades later, America’s attitude toward China reflects the fear that engagement has led instead to a China that is indeed stronger and richer, but still authoritarian. It appears [...]

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Wearing chemical warfare suits and masks, the soldiers ran into the building and started to evacuate those wounded in a non-conventional Syrian missile attack.
The “attack” was a simulation, put on Tuesday for Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz at the Home Front Command’s training center on the Tzrifin military [...]

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