Well, this does make a certain kind of sense, I suppose. The Israeli strike on what now appears to have been a nuclear reactor at a very low state of construction is preventive war at its most distant; the Israelis have determined that Syria, at...
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I've been reluctant to comment further on the Israeli strike on Syria, because I still don't really understand what happened. As Kevin Drum notes, this appears to be a common.
I really don't know what to think about the airstrike on Syria at this point. The allegations regarding Syria's nuclear program seem to be getting increasingly detailed. Peter at Duck.
Much of the blogosphere is astir with discussion of the Israeli strike into Syria. Initial speculation suggested that the attack targeted a Syrian weapons shipment to Hezbollah. According to this Times article, the strike was directed at a cache of nuclear materials that had recently...
I have an article up at TAP about the latest verbal brawl between the US and Russia over the proposed missile defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic.
This is kind of interesting; I open up Fox News and find a front page article on a threatening new Russian ICBM that's apparently capable of defeating any US missile.
Ed Morrisey tries to put lipstick on a pig:Context remains important here, which both Reed and the Times fail to consider. Intelligence is not an exact science, and conclusions have to be drawn on spotty evidence at times. The United States cannot allow itself the...
The Times has the details on the deal. Essentially, the US and the five party group will be trading electricity, fuel oil, food, and some diplomatic goodies for a verifiable.
Dan Nexon has a good response to my article on Iranian nuclear diplomacy:First, if Iran does achieve an effective nuclear deterrent that might, in fact, make it easier for Iran.
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...
I have a piece up at TAP on nuclear diplomacy and the Iranian nuclear program.
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.