More Malfeasance on Open Skies
Lyric of the Week: “There must be some kind of way outta here Said the joker to the thief There’s too much confusion I can’t get no relief” – “All Along the Watchtower,” lyrics by Bob Dylan, best cover by…
Michael Krepon
No Use is Stronger Than No First Use
Quote of the week: “The earth — its cities and its forests in particular — is like a well-laid fire. If you light it with enough nuclear matches, it will burn, and as it burns it will fill the atmosphere…
Impeachment and Arms Control
Quote of the week: “In politics, words are the coin of the realm. Used judiciously, they can build political capital, coalesce a public consensus, or enrich a nation. But when frittered away or ineffectively employed, words in political life can…
Free Falling, cont.
Prophecy of the week: “The show of their countenance doth witness against them; And they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they have wrought evil unto themselves.” — Isaiah Lo, the standing…
Raymond Aron
Quote of the week: “The idea that the two great powers of an international system are brothers at the same time as being enemies should be accepted as banal rather than paradoxical.” — Raymond Aron Those seeking escape from surface-layered…
Chauncey Gardner Has a Sore Back
Verse of the week: “Now ‘tis the spring, and weeds are shallow rooted; Suffer them now, and Grow o’ergrown the garden And choke the herbs for Want of husbandry” –Shakespeare, Henry VI Long-time readers of these posts will be familiar…
Les Gelb
Lyric of the week: “Hark, now hear the sailors cry,Smell the sea, and feel the sky,Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.” — Van Morrison Quote of the week: “Fail alone; succeed together.” — Les Gelb Les Gelb,…
India Fuzzes Up No First Use
Quote of the week: “Foreign policy is the face a nation wears to the world.” — Arthur Schlesinger The Press Trust of India ran this story on August 16th: NEW DELHI — Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said India…
India, Another Exceptional, Illiberal Democracy
Quote of the week: “When you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Perfect it. Pass it on.” — Thurgood Marshall My idea of India is dated, like…
Kashmir’s Escalatory Potential
Quote of the week: “Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.” — Mahatma Gandhi I was relatively sanguine after the last spike…