I was in New Delhi when I first felt the lump in my chest. At that moment, in 2007, the slow, progressive decline in my health could no longer be wished away – not when I had a tumor the size of an orange growing through my sternum. I learned subsequently that my cancer was …
The IAEA’s Conclusion About Turkey
by | 2015-04-16 | 7 Comments
But what are nuclear scientists in Turkey actually doing? Not for the first time, when Barack Obama declared April 2 that the greater Middle East has no real alternative to a nuclear accommodation with Iran, advocates of the “cascade of proliferation” theory warned us that Turkey’s future would be nuclear-armed. In fact, kibitzers on both …
Name That Vista
by | 2015-04-15 | 13 Comments
Back by popular demand: a geo quiz! This is a teaser for a how-to I will write next week. Q1: Where is the photographer standing? Q2: What is the address of the nearest building shown in the picture? Put your answers in the comments below, and NO PEEKING!
The Iran Deal: Critiques and Rebuttals
by | 2015-04-13 | 7 Comments
“Obama imagines that this deal will bring Iran in from the cold, tempering its territorial ambitions and ideological radicalism.” — Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, April 9, 2015 “If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran …
