Isn’t There A Treaty Against This?

Don’t Do The Crime If You Can’t Do The Time

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seems to have a congenital problem: he’s a jerk with bad judgment. Now, he’s again being accused of being a criminal. At least that’s according to the Guardian article WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange. Assange’s details were also added to Interpol’s worldwide wanted list. Dated 30 November, the [...]

Drinking Deeply on New START

What would you rather drink deeply on, wisdom or kool-aid? Hopefully you don’t have to think too long and can turn to the wisdom of Keith Payne. This is the best (and most recent!) wrap on the issues surrounding New START out there. He’s itching to have some real debate, sans the arms control cram-down.

NATO’s Grim Fate-O?

NATO was arguably once the world’s most important international alliance. Now it seems ready to fade away as overexpansion and a loss of purpose may have marginalized its usefulness. From Defense News: U.S. Adm. James Stavridis said Nov. 29 he is “confident” NATO member states will adopt the Obama administration’s plans for a European missile [...]

Nuclear Non Sequitur, Part Deux

This is the second critique of a cartoonish nuclear non sequitur, a New York Times editorial called What the G.O.P. Missed which is a part of the New START full-court press. This particular non sequitur tries to link the European missile defense, aka the U.S.-provided phased adaptive approach, to New START. If you did not [...]

Nuclear Non Sequitur, Part One

There are a couple of cartoonish nuclear non sequiturs that have showed up recently in cyberspace. The first appears at the Boston Globe in the form of James Carroll’s op-ed Fallout from a US treaty failure. As is a Carroll tradition, his “argument” manages to assume what it says it’s going to prove. The op-ed [...]

The WikiLeaks – Homeland Security Irony

The Department of Homeland Security has publicly seized a number of domain names for alleged copyright infringement. Which particular organization falling under the gigantic Homeland Security umbrella took this action? Immigration and Customs Enforcement, AKA ICE. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Really?! In the meantime, WikiLeaks has and will post volumes of documents with potentially profound [...]

Is This Why The Administration Has Gone Full Court Press On New START?

Could it be human nature? A rule of buying and selling is this: never fall in love with the product. Similarly, the more time one has invested in the deal and the more attachment one has to it, the more likely it is the deal will get done. Consider the new car buyers and the [...]

Why Is The U.S. In Korea?

Pat Buchanan asks ‘Why is the United States present in South Korea, Japan, and Europe?’ The answer appears to be inertia. How about South Korea? Fifty-seven years after that (the Korean) armistice, a U.S. carrier task force is steaming toward the Yellow Sea in a show of force after the North fired 80 shells into [...]

Star Wars Boba Fett Electronic Helmet

The Star Wars Boba Fett Electronic Helmet: it’s…for the children. But it is Black Friday. Or at least Black Friday weekend. BTW, War Eagle!