A few weeks back, Rumsfeld gave an interview where he discussed proliferation and international institutions. He said: Q: What you said just a minute ago about, you know, this isn’t something that one country can solve, it sounded awfully close to kind of stepping back from what we’ve been saying all along, which is everything’s …
SSCI Iraq reports
by | 2006-09-08 | No Comments
Two of them are out. There’s one comparing the IC’s prewar assessments with the postwar results on the ground and another about the IC’s use of INC-provided information.
Best Option in a Bad Situation
by | 2006-09-08 | 6 Comments
Calling it “the best option in a bad situation,” Geoff Forden and John Thomson have another paper out recommending a multinational nuclear arrangement to resolve the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program: Iran would lease all its enrichment-related equipment and facilities to the partnership and would undertake not to enrich and reprocess except through the partnership. …
UNMOVIC On Hussein's WMD Motives
by | 2006-09-07 | 4 Comments
UNMOVIC released a report a while back describing the commission’s lessons-learned from its work in Iraq. The whole thing is pretty interesting…I would just highlight its explanation for Iraq’s slack cooperation with the inspectors: It would appear that the following factors contributed to Iraq’s decision not to reveal such information to the United Nations: (a) …
