Craptastical Thinking

Somewhere beyond magical thinking lies a special world of sheer idiocy compounded by crazy: The simmering strategic crisis between the United States and Pakistan exploded with full force on May 1, with the unilateral and unauthorized US commando raid alleged to have killed the phantomatic Osama bin Laden in a compound at Abottabad, a flagrant […]

Republican Tea Codependency

The verification regime in Obama’s new START is better than Reagan’s. The treaty has the unconditional support of everyone in the defense establishment. It’s vital to a nonproliferation strategy to deal with rogue states. So why is John Kyl on a one-Republican quest to keep START from passing before the new Congress? Simple: the president […]

Joe Lieberman Is A Cretin

The Connecticut Senator has adopted the neocon line on nuclear disarmament: Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” the Connecticut Independent suggested that he himself would oppose ratification of the START II Treaty that Obama signed in Prague this past week, in part because, he reasoned, the language left America vulnerable to a nuclear Iran. “I don’t […]

Arms Control: “Breakthrough in Months”

Another one for the “just like Bush” folder! From the AFP: WASHINGTON — The United States and Russia have reached an “agreement in principle” to slash their nuclear weapons stockpiles, the first such pact in nearly two decades, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. State Department officials could not immediately confirm the report which said […]

Begging For Armageddon

I was catching up on the story of India’s terror alert when I spotted this buried far below the lede: The terror alert came just days after U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that a syndicate of terror groups affiliated with al-Qaida was trying to foment a new war between India and Pakistan. (Emphasis mine) […]