Interview in the Frankfort State Journal. They seem to have printed the complete transcript of the tape recording; apparently I need to add more punctuation when I speak. I'm also pretty sure that I said "non-aggression" rather than "non-proliferation", but I suppose that the tape...
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I have a piece up at TAP on nuclear diplomacy and the Iranian nuclear program.
I understand why the Air Force is going to be stepping up patrols along the Iraq-Iran border. The USAF needs to be able to tell Congress that it's contributing in.
Shorter Benny Morris:Iran will inevitably use its nuclear weapons to destroy Israel, even if it doesn't use its nuclear weapons to destroy Israel.I wish there was more to it than that, but there you go. His analysis rests, of course, on the assumption that Iran...
It's taken as an article of faith in some parts that a large number of IEDs in Iraq are coming from Iran, and that this phenonomenon is indicative of clear.
Pretty old, but check out this Defense Tech post (and linked article) about Iranian efforts to keep the F-14s purchased by the Shah flying. It looks as if, contrary to.
Eric Martin cuts to the chase:Let's say, again ex arguendo, that Iran's actions have been intolerabely malicious and destructive, and that our own acts and intentions have been peaceful and pure. Would it, even then, behoove us to treat Iran's meddling in Iraq as a...
Yesterday morning, a colleague with mild tendencies towards neo-conservatism pointed, in irritation, to Ken Pollack's article in the Washington Post. "It's as if," the colleague noted, "he hadn't written a.