America’s Newest Strategic Partner

"The U.S.-India civil nuclear deal is a strategic win," according to Secretary of State Condi Rice, and "seen in the larger context of the elevation of India-United States relationship" to "a strategic partnership," she urged Congress this week to approve it. How can...

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Why We’re at War

Bonkers Bolton told State Department reporters in Washington this week that if Iran's government doesn't halt enrichment work and somehow prove its nuclear effort is peaceful, the "likely next step" would be a "Chapter VII resolution under the UN...

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Security Council Defies Bolton

Under a Safeguards Agreement concluded by Iran with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – as required by the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) – Iran agreed to allow IAEA inspectors to satisfy themselves that no "source or...

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Bolton Really Is Bonkers

"This is a real test for the Security Council. There's just no doubt that for close to 20 years, the Iranians have been pursuing nuclear weapons through a clandestine program that we've uncovered. "If the U.N. Security Council can't deal with the proliferation of...

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Condi for NFL Commissioner

You probably saw where Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ruled out applying for the job of NFL commissioner after Paul Tagliabue retires. "Unfortunately, it came open at the wrong time. "Obviously, I'm very busy as secretary of state, and I intend to...

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More Failed Diplomacy

Back in November, 2004, the United Kingdom, France and Germany (E3) undertook to negotiate with Iran on behalf of the European Union a mutually acceptable long-term agreement which would provide the EU "objective guarantees" that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively...

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Preventing International Crimes

When Bush went to Congress in September 2002, seeking "specific statutory authorization" to invade Iraq, he based his case on what we now know was "fixed" intelligence – a hastily completed National Intelligence Estimate, which supposedly contained, but did not...

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Washington: The Biggest NPT Violator

Well, according to President Bush’s 2006 National Security Strategy, "America is at war. "This is a wartime national security strategy required by the grave challenge we face – the rise of terrorism fueled by an aggressive ideology of hatred and murder,...

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The IAEA Pleads Incompetence

As a signatory to the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Iran is required to subject all "source or special fissionable material" being produced, processed, or used in any principal facility to verification – "in accordance with the Statute of the...

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More Bushlet Diplomacy

Last week Broad and Sanger made a characteristically misleading – but sometimes uncharacteristically revealing – report in the New York Times with respect to what would transpire in the aftermath of the March meeting of the Board of Governors of the...

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