[Update below the jump. -Ed.] Berlin brings out the best in U.S. Presidents. President Barack Obama has now tried in Berlin to replicate successful JFK’s recipe for curtailing nuclear tests. Senior administration officials have talked privately with the Kremlin about taking parallel steps to reduce strategic forces by one-third and to make bold reductions in …
The Vision Thing
by | 2013-06-17 | 10 Comments
President George H.W. Bush bemoaned his lack of “the vision thing.” In contrast, George W. Bush was a bold visionary. By acting on his ambitious rhetoric to extend freedom, fight terrorism and wage preventive war, Bush 43 became America’s least admired wartime President since Harry S Truman. (Read it and wince: Bush’s second inaugural address …
FYRP: Like Watching Grain Dry
by | 2013-06-12 | 2 Comments
It’s BBBBBAAAAACCCCCCKKKKK! After a test-and-paper filled odyssey, FYRP has returned! 38 North | Several authors have created an image of life at North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear facility. All Things Nuclear | The House Armed Services Committee marked up the Defense authorization bill several days ago. It contains 14 Ground-Based Interceptors, and a substantial East Coast …
More EMP Nonsense
by | 2013-06-10 | 24 Comments
Sorry about not blogging for the past few weeks. I haven’t submitted a Foreign Policy column, either. As some of you may know, things have been pretty tough on both personal and professional fronts for a while now. Am modestly optimistic that things will start sucking less over the next few weeks. Anyway, this little …
