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Quote Of The Day

“In summary, a ‘world without nuclear weapons’ would be a world in which the United States, Russia, Israel, China, and half a dozen or a dozen other countries would have hair-trigger mobilization plans to rebuild nuclear weapons and mobilize or commandeer delivery systems, and would have prepared targets to preempt other nations’ nuclear facilities, all in a high-alert status, with practice drills and secure emergency communications.”

“It Was Hard Not To Feel A Bit Nostalgic For The Days When Grown-Ups Were In Charge”

The Economist on the Reagan legacy in fighting the Cold War.

Um . . .

Didn’t something . . . happen around 1980? Can’t quite remember . . . something whose name begins with the letter “S”?

On Nuclear Weapons

Meet Sarkozy the Realist, and Obama the Naïve.

Reaganism And Foreign Affairs

I enjoyed reading this appreciation of Ronald Reagan by William Inboden, but what he terms as “the limits of realism,” I would term as realism’s ultimate triumph.

- March 21, 2010 -

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