Armscontrolwonk.com is going to be a little neglected over the next couple of days due to a strange confluence of events—a headcold, dead logic board in my laptop, a talk I have to give tomorrow at the Stimson Center and an impending trip to the University of Illinois for a workshop on reinventing multilateralism. Here …
Bad Manners At the State Department
by | 2004-05-16 | No Comments
The aide who abruptly ended Colin Powell/’s interview with Tim Russert is a former press flack for Tom DeLay. I knew the right wing had salted the State Department to undermine Powell/’s influence, but this is nuts. An aide to Secretary Powell attempted cut short a taped interview with Tim Russert by moving the camera …
Young, Right-Wing and Stupid in Iraq
by | 2004-05-14 | No Comments
I know better than to read the National Review, but this quote in an article on “Gen X in the Green Zone” contains a remarkably stupid comment from Michael Ledeen/’s daughter in defense of the vast number of kids who got jobs with the CPA in Iraq based soley on their ideological affinities: [Simone] Ledeen, …
Go Sonia! Congress wins in India. Bush will blow it, again.
by | 2004-05-13 | No Comments
The Hindu natonalist (BJP) government of Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has fallen. The Congress party (led by Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi) won a surprise victory in India/’s elections and is expected to form a coalition government with its electoral allies. Add this to the list of …
