TCS: Tech Central Station - Mr. Multilateral (to read). Via Insta. Stuff about the Proliferation Security Initiative and the Caspian Guard I hadn't heard about before.
For all the abuse that the Bush administration receives for its conduct of the war on terrorism, the Proliferation Security Initiative and Caspian Guard stand as examples of the other side of the war as conducted by a serious administration that knows we are all in for a long twilight struggle. Only by removing or intimidating terror-sponsoring states into renouncing terrorism, and only by stopping the spread of nuclear and other mass killing technology in its tracks, can the free world hope to win this war without incredible loss of life. Bush administration critics and the media -- often one and the same -- consistently fail to take the existence of the PSI and its start-up sister Caspian Guard into account when assessing how we are doing in the war. The existence of these organizations indicate that for all the squabbling over Iraq, most of the world's major powers do regard terrorism and weapons proliferation as serious conjoined threats, and are willing to band together to do something about it. And they are willing to be led by the unilateral cowboy from Texas who defied several of them to topple Saddam Hussein.
Fascinating article, read the whole thing.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
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Look, more people have/will have the bomb after the Bush Administration than they had before it. In the sloganeering "Axis of Evil" who has or soon will have Nuclear weapons?
This is a global failure, and because it's a global failure don't think that anyone will allow the Bush Admin to do any victory laps because there's nothing to celebrate.
People who wish the western world dead have the bomb, Things aren't getting better, they're getting worse and we're all losing.
And on a more uplifting note I dare you to not break your right wing partisan hide laughing at Will Ferrell in this.
http://whitehousewest.com/
You'll ignore the message, but laugh at the messenger. :-)