A Box is in the Eye of the Beholder

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  March 10th at 05:51 PM  | 

On December 11, 2005 former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright went on “Meet the Press” to opine that the Iraq war had been a mistake–worse than that it had de-railed the successful pre-war program of sanctions and a no-fly zone, which had contained the paper tiger: And what we did was to keep Saddam Hussein in a box by using diplomacy, sanctions and force, with | Read More »

Finally Asking My Question of Donald Rumsfeld

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  February 13th at 12:53 PM  | 

Promoted from Diaries – DM I had a novel experience last Thursday–I had lunch with my boss in our office conference room, not as we have untold numbers of times, but as a blogger hoping to get a question in. In a way it was a lunch more than four years in the making.