I spent yesterday at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on International Security and Arms Control summer symposium: Post-Cold War U.S. Nuclear Strategy: A Search for Technical and Policy Common Ground. There wasn/’t a lot of common ground on either technical or policy matters. Representative David Hobson (R-OH), chairman of the House Energy and …
Cunnningham on hold
by | 2004-08-10 | No Comments
Senator John Kyl (R-AZ) is reportedly waging a quiet campaign to press the Bush Administration to withdraw the US signature from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The Washington Post/’s “In the Loop” and the Los Angeles Times are reporting that Kyl/’s crusade is now keeping the the United States without an Ambassador to …
Dick
by | 2004-08-09 | No Comments
The only way for us to deal with people that you can’t negotiate with — there’s no arms control treaty here at the end of the day that guarantees our security. There/’s no way to appease these people and have them go away. The only way to deal with them is to destroy them before …
Doug Feith & the Paranoid Style
by | 2004-08-07 | No Comments
You know your career is in the tubes when you make a derisive footnote in a bipartisan report investigating the worst attack on American soil. That/’s exactly where Douglas J. “Spanky” Feith finds himself. A footnote (n. 75, p.559) in the 9/11 Report details a memo Feith drafted to Rumsfeld that “expressed disappointment at the …
