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 …
Dobrynin
by | 2013-06-10 | 13 Comments
Anatoly Dobrynin was the Soviet Union’s Ambassador to the United States for a mere twenty-four years. He arrived in Washington the year of the Cuban missile crisis and left after Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan managed to steer US-Soviet relations away from nuclear danger. Before this major course correction could occur, Washington and Moscow passed …
