Writing on ACW 2004–2021 · 161 posts
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Before North Korea, on 4 March, said it was no longer bound to its 1999 missile launch moratorium, Time Magazine published a 20 February article making an old charge: “Administration officials think it may be cheating [on the moratorium] by…
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Bulletin to Anne Applebaum and others who argue that John Bolton’s “blunt” manner makes him “an ideal candidate to be America’s U.N. ambassador”: your boy has a history of doing stupid things. Competence matters, kids. Case in point: Bolton’s fave…
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Michelle Goldberg reports from CPAC on Rep. Chris Cox’s wisdom: America’s Operation Iraqi Freedom is still producing shock and awe, this time among the blame-America-first crowd,” he crowed. Then he said, “We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and…
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It’s late, so I thought I’d take aim at this barrel of fish. Someone asked a question at the ACA meeting about how, given the Iraq intel debacle, the US can build a credible case regarding Iran and North Korea’s…
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Jon Wolfstahl has an analysis of recent reports indicating that North Korea shipped UF6 to Libya. He covers a lot of the same issues that I did here, but includes a sentence which speaks to an important question: how can…
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Jeffrey can write the substance today. I’ve been busy. I just noticed this exchange between the SecState and Kerry during Rice’s 18 January confirmation hearing: Context: Rice and Kerry were discussing the role of “interfaith efforts” in U.S. public diplomacy.…
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The NYT and WP stories are obviously describing two different intelligence methods, but the two don’t seem to exclude one another. Put together, they are perhaps compelling. Perhaps. Some relevant questions/comments: 1.When was the UF6 produced and shipped to Libya?…
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Dave Ruppe at Global Security Newswire has a great article on how Bush and Rice are spinning the Duelfer Report. At least one media outlet decided the fact that the Bush Administration keeps blatantly lying is news. As an aside,…
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The very image of reliability … Well now that Michael Roston’s called me out, I feel the need to say something about this Washington Times editorial about Egypt. In short, it’s bad for many of the same reasons as this…
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I was initially unimpressed a few days ago when Cheney said: Well, one of the concerns people have is that Israel might do it without being asked, that if, in fact, the Israelis became convinced the Iranians had significant nuclear…
