I’ve been attending the New America Foundation’s annual Board & Senior Staff retreat. (I forgot my camera. The beautiful image is from this Flickr photo set.) I’ve been to various meetings at Airlie over the years and positively adore the Whistling Swan. We’ve had interesting panels, including “American Foreign Policy After Bush” with Francis Fukuyama, …
Minimum Means Review in ACT
by | 2007-05-19 | 7 Comments
Brad Roberts has a civil, but largely negative review of my book in the latest edition of Arms Control Today. It points out some things that I could have done better. But one thing really annoys me. Roberts says that I blame the US for driving instability: His assessment of the problem strikes me as …
Bolton on North Korea
by | 2007-05-19 | 7 Comments
What is John Bolton talking about? What is he ever talking about? Okay, we get it. You don’t like the deal with North Korea. Why we needed another Wall Street Journal op-ed is beyond me. This doesn’t, of course, mean I didn’t read it. Then I went for a walk in the sun to detox …
Roodie Can Fail, After All
by | 2007-05-17 | No Comments
Wasn’t it conservative PJ O’Rourke who said “age and guile beat youth, innocence and bad haircut”? I missed this, but a couple of weeks ago Al Kamen danced on the grave of the nomination of John Rood, aka the poor man’s Bob Joseph, to be Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security: Rood Awakening? When …
