Can we grow up and out of scaring ourselves to death? Can we move into a long-term push toward the kind of energy future that will not bring real terror to millions around the world? Or will we just put on the costume of Superman and pretend we have saved Gotham City, yet again, while Frankenstorm 2.0 waits around the corner?
The ease with which we’ve accepted drone attacks bodes ill for the future.
“Euroskepticism” has crept into the hearts of eastern Europeans.
Security knows security when it sees it.
It is eerily fitting that George McGovern‘s passing occurred in the final heat of a furious election campaign, precariously balanced between Republocrats and Democlicans, two corporately owned political parties.
The larger question facing our nation about the U.S. role in the world and how the candidates themselves would define what is in the national security interest of the United States was almost completely ignored.
Meanwhile, “Yugonostalgia” has been all the rage among a certain class of cognoscenti over the last few years.
It’s sometimes lost on the arms control community that halting the spread of nuclear weapons begins at home.
Having “lost” Egypt and Tunisia already, the United States wasn’t inclined to take anything but the most tepid of steps in support of Bahrain’s protestors.
As chief prosecutor of the Yugoslav and Rwandan tribunals Carla Del Ponte found herself struggling uphill against institutional indifference and opposition.