Avatar photoHuman Events: Satire?

Anyone ever notice that google news lists “national conservative weekly” Human Events as “satire”?

Avatar photoGallucci: What's Your F*cking Plan for North Korea, Then?

Scott Stossel in The Atlantic Monthly quotes Bob Gallucci on people who oppose negotiations with North Korea: Gallucci, for his part, said he was “surprised at how surprised [Ken] Adelman was that we—those of us who favor negotiation—could end up in a position where we would favor the use of military force.” Gallucci was emphatic …

Avatar photoYou're Out of Your Element, Tommy

Tom Friedman writes: “Readers of this column know that I rarely write about nuclear proliferation.” It shows. People who know about proliferation would not write that “the solution [to proliferation] is so ridiculously obvious there isn’t much to say.” [One could, however, anticipate such piffle from someone who said the Iraq debacle was a justified …

Avatar photoLibya/Syria/Bolton Housecleaning

Some relevant points on Syria and Libya’s suspected WMD programs that I’ve been meaning to post for a while. Libya I posted a while back about Bolton’s accusations that Libya was in violation of the BWC. This name-calling strategy was proven pretty much bankrupt when Libya was found to lack such a program. It is …