Taepo-Dud
So who looks more foolish here? A. Kim Jong-Il for staging a July 4th fireworks display that blew up in his face; B. William Perry and Ash Carter for hyperventilating that we had to blow up this missile on the…
2006
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Well well well …
CNN is quoting “a senior State Department official” as saying North Korea conducted “an apparently unsuccessful test” of the Taepodong 2 “that failed in flight.” Can’t wait for the details. (I guess this means the Dear Leader isn’t watching the…
Perpetuation of a Hoax
How did they do it? How exactly did Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Hadley and other senior officials get the intelligence agencies to twist the evidence to fit their war plans? Larry Wilkerson knows. And now he’s talking. Testifying before The Senate…
Cold Case?
Thanks to Jeff, I get to grab the controls of this fine sports car of a blog while he is doing something in Paris that he has convinced his funders is of vital importance. Let me start on a serious…
Just Saying
I think it’s reasonable to believe that countrires’ adherence to a treaty at least suggests that they agree with its basic tenets. By that measure, here is the number of countries, apart from India, who believe that New Delhi should…
The Fine Art of Hotel Expressionism
Friends, I will be in London and Paris for the next two weeks, beginning with a display of the fine art of hotel expressionism showing at the Swissotel in London. If any of you, dear readers, are available for a…
HIRC Markup, US-India Nuclear Deal
Possible demise of the NPT being broadcast now… Just remember that the NPT doesn’t include the phrase “unless the US says so.” Update I forgot to mention that comments containing the phrases “nuclear apartheid” or ”[reference to arms controllers] ayatollahs”…
Chastise That Naughty Boy!
Mikio Ikuma, Deputy International Editor of Yomiuiri Shimbun, calling for a strike on North Korea: Strike: Chastise That Naughty Boy! Tokyo, Japan—North Korea has been toying with dangerous weapons for so long, wrongly hoping that it can intimidate neighboring grown-ups.…
Finally, some good news for MDA?
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA), much-beleaguered about the status of the missile defense system designed to protect the United States against missile attacks, can finally report good news. Sort of. It held a test of the upgraded version of…
Greetings from Middlebury
I am giving a talk on blogging as I blog. Weird.