Category: US Politics
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Terrorism and Security
While I am holidaying in the US, I hope to attend this conference in Washington. A great list of speakers and no doubt there will be bloggers there too. Among the people I would be most interested in seeing: Steve Clemons Jim Fallows George Soros Michael Lind Robert Kuttner Tom Clancy Ann-Marie Slaughter Francis Fukuyama…
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CIA and common sense
A follow up post on the CIA book I talked about yesterday and John commented on. Apparently Porter Goss has started something interesting, reported by Time Magazine. Dan Drezner gets it right again too, why so late? In what experts say is a welcome nod to common sense, the CIA, having spent billions over the…
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India and the US
Dan has a very interesting post on the latest deal between India and the US. This is a very curious development indeed. President Bush agreed yesterday to share civilian nuclear technology with India, reversing decades of U.S. policies designed to discourage countries from developing nuclear weapons. The agreement between Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan…
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North Korea: The War Game
In the latest issue of the Atlantic is an article by Scott Stossel on how the US would fight a war with North Korea. He details the history of the regime in North Korea back to 1993 when they supposedly first started making efforts to build nuclear weapons: The seeds of the current crisis were…
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Deepthroat outed?
“I’m The Guy They Called Deep Throat”, or so says the headline in Vanity Fair. It seems to be the answer to the question many have posed over the last 30 or so years, the Washington Post have apparently confirmed it: The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at…
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Bush on stem cells
I am inclined to agree with the comments Matthew Yglesias made on Bush’s position with regard to embryonic stem cell research. If Bush truly believes that it is immoral why does he only plan to veto federal funding for research? For him it seems that murder is fine as long as its not federal money…
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Apocalypse Soon
Robert McNamara’s piece has appeared on the FP website, go have a read. …just last summer, at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry said, âI have never been more fearful of a nuclear detonation than now.⦠There is a greater than 50 percent probability of a…
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Rethinking conservatism
Dan Drezner deconstructs Andrew Sullivan’s recent article in the New Republic. Glenn Reynolds has also weighed in. The debate, especially Drezner’s thoughts, is an interesting one.
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TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data
Dan Gillmor points out this rather curious story from the US, covered by Bruce Schneier. Choice quote: I’ll say it: the TSA lied.
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Bolton Nomination
Steve Clemons has put the call out. He wants bloggers to mobilise against John Bolton becoming US ambassador to the United Nations. He notes: We need language to reward and inspire Senators willing to oppose Bolton — and language that shames those willing to stand with Bolton and who essentially want the United Nations to…