Intervention vs. deterrence This is a fairly weak argument: The less you have to lose, the more freedom you have to attack. Stalin and Mao were building vast empires. They had a lot to lose. Saddam has less. It might be enough to deter him. But the fact that deterrence worked against Stalin and Mao [...]
Archive for September, 2002
Saletan on deterrence
Posted in General on September 30, 2002 | Comments Off
Toricellie going to resign?
Posted in General on September 30, 2002 | Comments Off
Sources: Torricelli may quit Senate This could change things a lot .. A DEMOCRATIC source told Reuters that Torricelli would make a decision – within the next few hours – on whether to resign from the Senate, so New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. James McGreevey could appoint his replacement. If Toricelli wasn’t a sleaze, the conventional [...]
One Vote Away
Posted in General on September 30, 2002 | Comments Off
“One Vote Away” by Nicholas Confessore This article highlights a big problem for the current Democratic leadership. After all, what’s at stake isn’t just the careers of two able politicians, but the entire balance of power in Washington. The GOP already controls the White House, the Supreme Court, and the House of Representatives. The Democrats [...]
The History of Terrorism?
Posted in General on September 30, 2002 | Comments Off
PLA has a discussion about terrorism and US responses In Blogtopia, (skippy invented that word) the history of terrorism seems to begin in 1979 when the Iranians stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The history then skips quickly to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. We have compiled a list of terrorist acts [...]
Secrecy could kill again
Posted in General on September 30, 2002 | Comments Off
Vast Detail on Towers’ Collapse May Be Sealed The wealth of detailed information about how and why the towers fell may never see the light of day. But everyone from structural engineers to relatives of victims fear that the closely held information, which includes the analysis and the possible answers that families and engineers around [...]
Bush meant that democrats don't care about American security
Posted in General on September 30, 2002 | Comments Off
Bush’s Words Can Go to the Blunt Edge of Trouble (washingtonpost.com) At least, that is the conclusion of this article: Bush’s bluntness produced a major headache for the White House last week and soured relations with congressional Democrats. They castigated Bush for his unscripted — but, according to aides, heartfelt — addition to a speech [...]
Leaflets to fight WMDs
Posted in General on September 30, 2002 | Comments Off
U.S. Effort Aimed At Iraqi Officers (washingtonpost.com) Well, it is probably a bit more than that: The Pentagon is preparing a campaign aimed at deterring Iraqi officers from firing chemical or biological weapons during a U.S. invasion because intelligence officials believe President Saddam Hussein has given field commanders conditional authority to use the weapons in [...]
Possible lighter blogging
Posted in General on September 30, 2002 | Comments Off
I have faimly in town for the next two weeks, so I will probably being doing a bit less blogging. Read the links on the right – they are all good.
Max on the disappearance of the right to assembly
Posted in General on September 28, 2002 | Comments Off
Weblog Entry – 09/28/2002: “THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON” As predicted here on MaxSpeak, constitutional rights have been suspended this week by the D.C. police department. As this story shows, the standard police practice is to cleanse an area of people whenever it suits them, negating the right to assemble peacefully Right to Assembly? Right to [...]
Did Bush Administration lie about Iraq nuclear report?
Posted in General on September 28, 2002 | Comments Off
Agency disavows report on Iraq arms — The Washington Times Apparently, there is no report that says Saddam was six months form a nuclear bomb in 1998: The International Atomic Energy Agency says that a report cited by President Bush as evidence that Iraq in 1998 was “six months away” from developing a nuclear weapon [...]
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