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  • Re: Playing political wack-a-mole with the brown nations..

    I agree with you that trying to keep nukes out of the hands of nations that truly want them has not worked — and probably can not work — indefinitely. And of course there is a double standard when it comes to the U.S., Russia, etc. that makes nuclea non-proliferation entirely unappealing to other nations. However, theocracies (including Israel, ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by ishmaeldaro on February 15, 2009

  • News Flash: Christopher Hitchens Seeks Catholic Confessional

    I was surprised to read Christopher Hitchens today, riding high on his moral horse as to the political, cultural and economic predations of Maximum Leader Robert Mugabe in his current Country of Residence, Zimbabwe. What people like Hitchens never seem to understand, is that morality is never just for other people, or leaders, or religious types. ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on June 10, 2008

  • Krebs Can't Shake Imperial Thinking

    It seems like so many pundits, thinkers, politicans, and leaders in America just can't shake the mindset that America must advance its interests abroad through conniving double talk, backstabbing hypocricy, and cutthroat manicheanism. Its like the abuser that beats his kids, realizes its wrong, but resorts back to beating them because it just ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 4, 2008

  • As viewed from Britain

    I have followed US Politics closely since I was in my teens. There are reasons for this, starting with My Lai, and much reinforced by my perception, at age seventeen, that Richard Nixon was crazy enough to start a nuclear war to create an insane distraction from Watergate. That scared me badly and it was years before I got over it Anyway, ...
    Posted to Foreigners by anarch on October 2, 2007