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 …
Always Read The Fine Print: Sanders Sinks the CD
by | 2004-08-07 | No Comments
The text of Ambassador Sander/’s speech at the CD reaffirming US support for the FMCT actually represents a step backward for U.S. policy. Now I understand why the State Department sat on the full text for a couple of days. She states: We believe an FMCT is ripe for negotiations and must have a clean …
