Arianna Huffington, the woman with most irritating accent ever, has launched her new group blog. Participants include: Larry David, Walter Cronkite and Senator Corzine. One question leaps to mind, does the blog have to give equal time to the other NJ gubernatorial candidates like Brett Schundler and Doug Forrester?
If this moronic post by Rep. Ed Markey is any indication, this thing will crash faster than Air America:
One little, two little, three little nukes...four little, five little, six little nukes...
I wonder how many North Korean nuclear weapons we will have to discover in order for this Administration to conclude we can no longer continue to preach nuclear temperance from a barstool. The Bush approach to non-proliferation has become a dangerous policy pretzel: demand UN inspections, ridicule UN inspections, invade the countries with no weapons, and demand that others forswear nukes while we build a new generation of new nukes. Meanwhile, today the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced its estimates that North Korea has close to six nuclear weapons.
While President Bush is off in Moscow, the leaders of the world are gathering in New York, for the United Nations Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference to formulate policy on what Vice President Dick Cheney identified on the campaign trail as "the most serious threat facing our nation" -- a nuclear weapon detonating in the middle of one of our cities. It is a rare moment when I concur with the Vice President, but he is speaking the absolute truth about how dangerous nuclear threats are.
Today, I will join Hans Blix at the United Nations for a discussion on the need to balance disarmament and non-proliferation. The real “nuclear option” that threatens our national security is not the one being debated in the Senate – this nuclear option will end in a devastating plume of smoke over our cities. The weekly threats from North Korea and Iran continue to be swept under the rug.
My goodness, I've written posts that make me cringe when I go back and read them, but this is really bad. I foresee this blog giving all of us libertarian and conservative bloggers alot of fodder.
Monday, May 09, 2005
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Short of the "one little, two little" lameness, I don't see what is so silly about this excerpt (I didn't read the rest of the story). I think there is a point to be made of how North Korea built up weapons while we kept our eye on Iraq.
(Yes, I know that the *real* reason -- though not the one told to the public at the time -- was not entirely about weapons but about establishing a beach-head democracy, which I partially agree with)
I think Nuclear Proliferation *is* a big concern, and the US *isn't* being an ideal role model. Robert McNamara tends to agree: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/050505B.shtml
That is a very similar message that he gave in the Fog of War documentary. I think we should at least give the issue some serious thought if the guy who helped create the WW2 nuclear program and one of the key architects of our most recent large conflict is saying maybe our current foreign policy isn't such a good idea. Granted -- this applies to Clinton as well.
Besides, I just checked out Huffington Post for the first time and found the following subjects:
- Democrats: What Do They Stand For? (Walter Cronkite)
- Sudan Suffering in Silence (Joe Scarborough)
The Scarborough piece is a good read and Cronkite can't be a bad addition. Not sure about the Seinfeld chick though...
The NoKo's didn't build while we were watching Iraq, they built after they signed a flawed treaty in which we gave them everything they wanted and they gave us nothing. That treaty was signed in 1994 after being negotiated by that noted statesman Jimmy Carter.
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