Paul Kerr, at the Arms Control Association, notes that David Sanger’s NYT article today on the debate “is pretty good, but he really got this part wrong: Mr. Kerry argued repeatedly that North Korea posed a far greater threat than Iraq to the United States, but that Mr. Bush had failed to face up to …
Scoblic on Bush on North Korea
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I’ve often jokes that the axis of evil wasn’t a phrase, it was a menu. Now that we are past the soup course, Bush doesn/’t seem to know which fork to use. Peter Scoblic is the former editor at Arms Control Today and now Executive Editor at The New Republic. Paul Kerr and Wade Boese, …
Debate thoughts
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From an arms control perspective, the debate was mildly interesting. Bush hit Kerry over his support for the International Criminal Court, something the PIPA/’s voter studies show should be a losing issue for Bush if Kerry sticks him to it. Kerry said he/’d shut down the RNEP, Bush just mentioned missile defense in passing. I …
A Democratic National Security Strategy & Arms Control
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Large majorities of Bush supporters also support a variety of arms control agreeements, such as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the International Criminal Court and the Ottawa Convention banning land mines, that Bush himself opposes: This is a huge missed opportunity for the Democratic Party to make a case for change. The Program on International …
