If Iran agrees, on paper, to end uranium enrichment, it will no longer be inspected and could then secretly recreate its program.
Putting a Country on a Leash: Iran and Uranium
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War & Peace
An Alternative to War with Iran
Relations between Iran and the West, fraught with tension and conflict for decades, have in the past few months reached a fever pitch. There is talk of war on a daily basis from both sides. Hundreds of millions, if not billions, have been spent both to fuel the Iranian missile and nuclear program and the counter-measures taken by the West to frustrate it. Leaders on both sides have worked themselves into paroxysms of rage regarding the alleged homicidal intensions of the other side.
Cold Comfort for Egypt
What shape will the convergence of Egypt’s civilian and military management with the Muslim Brotherhood take?
Pollyanna of Peace?
Virtually everything we read in novels and newspapers, not to mention the video games we play and the Hollywood movies we watch, reminds us that we’re steeped in violence and that it’s only going to get worse.
Everything, that is, except Steven Pinker.
Is Disarmament to Proliferation as Spending Is to Austerity?
Disarming to prevent nuclear proliferation strikes some as counterintuitive as spending during an economic crisis instead of cutting spending.
The End of the Iraq War: the Proverbial Tree Falling in the Forest
The end of the Iraq War went largely unremarked upon by the American public.
In Signal to Israel and Iran, Obama Delays War Exercise
The exercise, called “Austere Challenge ’12” and originally scheduled for April, was to have been a simulation of a joint U.S.-Israeli effort to identify, track and intercept incoming missiles by integrating sophisticated U.S. radar systems with the Israeli Arrow, Patriot and Iron Dome anti-missile defence systems.
Tone Deaf US Foreign Policy Announcements Create New Provocations in Asia
On UN Day, at a panel on Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary General Ban-ki Moon spoke about his 2008 five point proposal for nuclear disarmament, including the requirement for negotiations to ban the bomb. It was dismaying when the next speaker, a retired US Air Force General, Michal Mosley, breezily assured the audience and his fellow panelists that it certainly was now possible to rid the world of nuclear weapons, since atomic bomb technology is thoroughly out of date. He boasted that today “we” have long range attack weapons of such “unbelievable precision and lethality” that we no longer need nuclear weapons in the US arsenal. Our conventional weapons are ever so superior to those of any other nation. He said this as his fellow co-panelists, the Russian and Chinese ambassadors, took in the full import of his braggadocio, to my extreme embarrassment as a US citizen. Did the General consider for a moment the effect his words were having on the Ambassadors and the other non-US participants in the meeting? His astonishing disregard for the effect of such provocative war talk on our fellow earth mates seems to be a major failure of our “tin ear” foreign policy.
What Country Most Resembles Iran in Its Power Structure?
Negotiating with Iran, as with the United States, requires talking to it on many levels.
New York Times Continues to Conceal U.S. Role in 1965 Indonesia Coup
Why is the New York Times concealing the key role that the United States played in the 1965 coup in Indonesia that killed between 500,000 and one million people?