To progressives, keeping states from seeking to develop nuclear-weapons programs requires us to begin disarmament as a show of good faith. Conservatives claim to see no evidence of that working.
Some feel that if the United States continues to provide financial aid to Islamabad, it will be recognized as acceptance of flourishing Islamist extremism in Pakistan.
The assassination of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden did more than knock off U.S. Public Enemy Number One. It formalized a new kind of warfare, where sovereignty is irrelevant, armies tangential, and decisions are secret. It is, in the words of counterinsurgency expert John Nagl, “an astounding change in the nature of warfare.”
A new facility under construction in Los Alamos that’s pivotal to the manufacture of “nuclear pits” is emblematic of Americans’ ambivalence about nuclear weapons.
The excessive violence with which Ugandan security forces have over the last month cracked down on initially peaceful opposition protests at soaring food and fuel prices, and which last weekovershadowed the inauguration of re-elected President Yoweri Museveni, is almost as puzzling as it is disturbing.
The United States can’t have it both ways: ratifying disarmament treaties while building facilities to arm nuclear warheads.
This week, the words will take center stage. On Thursday, according to administration officials, President Obama will “reset” American policy in the Middle East with a major address offering a comprehensive look at the Arab Spring, “a unified theory about the popular uprisings from Tunisia to Bahrain,” and possibly a new administration approach to the region.
The war against drugs is a manifestation of policies and international agreements that cast Mexico as the battlefield and where the poor of this country and Central America pay the staggering price of their lives so that drugs arrive at their destination and business empires thrive.
Many of the same people who led the push for regime-change in Baghdad now have their sights set on Tehran.
After reluctantly passing New START, Republicans now seek to cripple it before it gets off the ground.