We shouldn’t let the much greater danger of nuclear weapons obscure the risks of nuclear energy.
Oh, for Those Halcyon Days When Nuclear Weapons Were Scarier Than Reactors
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War & Peace
Ed Schultz’s Transformation from Progressive Firebrand to Cruise-Missile Liberal
The Iraq War was approved by both congressional houses, but there’s been neither a vote nor even a debate on Libya.
Libya: “R2P” and Humanitarian Intervention Are Concepts Ripe for Exploitation
Even if one can justify the war on Libya on humanitarian grounds, this is probably not why it’s actually being fought.
Is the Libya Intervention Directed at China?
The Chinese know why the U.S. is bombing Libya but not challenging Bahrain and Yemen: Bahrain hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and Yemen’s port of Aden provides access to the Red Sea.
Consistency Is the Hobgoblin of Those Who Oppose Supporting the Libyan Rebels
While it is deplorable that policymakers apply their moral outrage selectively, in accordance with perceived national interests, that does not mean we should abandon the moral impulse altogether for the sake of consistency.
Gaddafi’s Genocidal Buzzwords No Doubt Sent up Red Flag to Samantha Power
Gaddafi may not be in a position to incite genocide, but he can approximate it with massacres.
Hey, Syrians, What Are You Complaining About? At Least Deraa Is Not Hama
Though not iron-fisted like his father, the hand that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cracks down with is heavy.
AFRICOM’s General Ham Waging War from Djibouti
For three years, critics of AFRICOM have charged that it serves to militarize U.S. foreign policy in the region, as opposed to aid and diplomacy.
Postcard from…Henoko
The Department of Defense has been busy all week feeding copy to the media on its undeniably heroic work in northern Japan. However that same press machine has been slower to report on another of its military projects currently underway in Okinawa. Since January 2011, the Okinawa Defense Bureau has been building a 50 million yen ($600,000) barrier between Camp Schwab and the public beach at Henoko.
Arab League Walks a Tightrope With Libya Intervention
Arab leaders are concerned about criticism for green-lighting Western military action in Libya, should it backfire.