Did the anthropogenic climate-change era start thousands of years ago?
Who Wants An Anti-ASAT Treaty?
As I noted in my TCSDaily piece, I’m not a space lawyer, but Jesse Londin is, and she has some thoughts on the legalities of the Chinese ASAT test.
State Of The Union
Well, when the evil Republicans controlled the Hill, it was horrible, but now that the Dems have taken over Congress, everything is wonderful, as commenters noted, though nothing else has changed, and despite the fascist bible-thumper still in the White House.
Here’s the speech I’d like to hear tonight, but I’m sure I won’t. Eli Lake has some further thoughts on what the president should say, and the Dems, who want to eat their cake and have it, too:
Now there are good reasons as to why the Democrats are so incoherent about the war. Their foreign policy masks an uneasy alliance between the party’s anti-war left that resents and seeks to restrain American power, and Bush I “realists” who seek to define and wield the nation’s power as ruthlessly as possible. Call it the McGovern-Scowcroft pact. It’s based on disagreement about big questions on American hegemony and agreement on smaller ones, such as the United Nations, Israel, and the venality of neoconservatives.
Hence Secretary of State Baker today is more influential among congressional Democrats than Secretary of State Albright. The George W. Bush presidency is the only thing that can bring these two tribes together. Anti-war Democrats opposed what they saw as a preemptive war for oil, whereas the realist critics of the war opposed it because they couldn’t understand what Iraqi freedom had to do with our national interest. A war for oil is just the sort of thing realists say nations ought to be fighting.
I wish we had better choices.
Hezbollah’s War
…may have started. Michael Totten is lucky (or unlucky) enough to be on the scene in burning Beirut. Palestinians are involved as well.
Hezbollah’s War
…may have started. Michael Totten is lucky (or unlucky) enough to be on the scene in burning Beirut. Palestinians are involved as well.
Hezbollah’s War
…may have started. Michael Totten is lucky (or unlucky) enough to be on the scene in burning Beirut. Palestinians are involved as well.
They’re Shocked, Shocked
You know, if your world view was really “shaken up by China’s ASAT demonstration, you couldn’t have been paying attention. China is a very real threat in military space (though not manned space), and has been for some time.
They’re Shocked, Shocked
You know, if your world view was really “shaken up by China’s ASAT demonstration, you couldn’t have been paying attention. China is a very real threat in military space (though not manned space), and has been for some time.
They’re Shocked, Shocked
You know, if your world view was really “shaken up by China’s ASAT demonstration, you couldn’t have been paying attention. China is a very real threat in military space (though not manned space), and has been for some time.
Shocking
The LA Times is reporting good news in Iraq.
his month, Fatikhan was host of the first Ramadi reconstruction conference, held behind the high walls of his family compound. Contractors, sheiks and others met with U.S. officials to discuss projects to pave roads, rebuild schools and improve electrical, sewer, phone and water systems.
Fatikhan, who wears tailored suits when not in traditional clothing, understands U.S. politics. He told a visiting journalist, “Please take a message to the Democrats: Let the American forces stay until we can hold Iraq together. Then we will have a party when American forces go.”
Outside Fatikhan’s meeting room, other sheiks, some much older, waited to talk to him. So did Iraqi police officials. The sheik’s bodyguards were nearby.
He offered his American and British visitors sweet tea and insisted that they stay for a lunch of goat, rice and sauces.
“The terrorists are not here for the interests of Iraq,” Fatikhan said. “We don’t need them here to say they’re here to defend us. If Iraq was in danger, the real people of Iraq would stand up and defend Iraq.”
He referred to the U.S. and Britain as “the two great nations.”
What’s wrong with them? Don’t they know it’s a hopeless quagmire? And on the day of the State of the Union speech, too.