Ineffective in halting Iraq’s nuclear-weapons program, Israel’s attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor can’t be used as a precedent for a military strike to halt Iran’s nuclear-enrichment program.
The day Obama decided enough was enough
and turned off his TV and slept well for the first time since 2007,
and Nancy Pelosi decided enough was enough
on a weekend in Vermont, when she threw
the Times and the Post into the woodstove unread,
and Congress decided enough was enough
staring into the mirrors of their sleeping consciences:
They began by ordering all the troops home.
Is nuclear disarmament possible when the fundamental differences between states seem written in stone?
To get elected to the Senate, you have to meet certain requirements. You have to be at least 30 years old, a U.S. citizen for nine years, and a resident of the state you represent. Based on Jim Webb’s recent performance, I would like to propose a fourth requirement: you have to be a novelist. If we had 100 novelists in the Senate, the body might finally be able, like Webb, to distinguish fact from fiction.
If we wait for states to get along in order to guarantee disarmament, they might start a nuclear war first.
In terms of damage since 9/11, terror attacks have ranked above shark attacks but below just about anything else that could possibly be dangerous to Americans, including car crashes which have racked up between 33,800 and 43,500 deaths a year since 2001.
It requires either willfulness or denial for a company to commit its employees to working in a building on a site that was already targeted in two momentous attacks.
Israel’s use of an elite branch of the Israeli Navy to interdict the Gaza flotilla was as if Washington had sent Green Berets to halt the Freedom Rides in the Deep South in 1961.
The people of both Afghanistan and Germany want Germans out of Afghanistan.
Attempts by members of the Bush administration to link bin Laden’s death to intelligence gained through torture reek of desperation.