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From the latest Nouveau Parisien, a thorough and depressing account of how far the ideologues’ takeover of the U.S. foreign policy establishment has gone.
Archive for the ‘Nuclear proliferation’ Category
April 9th, 2006
Category: Nuclear proliferation
Rightly or wrongly, I believe that letting the lunatics in Tehran nuke up is a sufficiently bad idea that we should be prepared to go to war rather than allow it. But “prepared” is a long way from “eager.” It looks as if the lunatics in Washington would really like to go to war with [...]
April 4th, 2006
Category: Nuclear proliferation
Everyone, especially the AJC, is terrified of Iran’s nukes. Except Israel.
March 30th, 2006
Category: Nuclear proliferation
If the Saudis are really nuking up, that’s really bad news. The silence from Washington is deafening.
March 5th, 2006
Category: Nuclear proliferation
There are lots of non-bigoted reasons to make nice to India on nukes while keeping Pakistan in the deep freeze.
February 6th, 2006
Category: Nuclear proliferation
The irony that we are discussing nuclear exchange between Iran and Israel is extreme. Persian-Jewish relations have been good for at least a couple of millenia, on the whole, and under the Shah, Israel and Iran were thick as thieves. When I was in Iran in the 70s it was widely believed that Mossad was [...]
February 6th, 2006
Category: Nuclear proliferation
I just want to note in regard to Andy’s post that examining the constraints on a possible military attack on Iran does not assume that such an attack is desirable in purely strategic terms. I would sum up the issues as such: a) A nuclear-armed Iran is likely to be very destabilizing. While Andy seems [...]
February 6th, 2006
Category: Nuclear proliferation
No, I’m not convinced that Iran is as deterrable as the Soviet Union was.
February 6th, 2006
Category: Nuclear proliferation
Mark, Steve, and Andy: this telepathic listen into a secure White House conference room enriches your discussion of Iran with the principal issues, which are of course domestic politics. At a time of crisis, policies otherwise unthinkable must be examined seriously. The crisis is unmistakable: Americans have broadly adopted erroneous and disrespectful opinions about our [...]
February 6th, 2006
Category: Nuclear proliferation
While I normally have the highest intellectual respect for Mark Kleiman, his tentative support for military action in Iran is (as he knows) one position that makes me doubt whether his contact with reality is as solid as he believes.
