It could bog down like the Iran-Iraq War. Kenneth Pollack is infamous for his 2002 book The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. That doesn’t mean he’s incapable of producing valuable […]
A quick resolution to the ISIS offensive not likely
Russ Wellen
Russ Wellen is not exactly a rogue, as in cop or elephant. And, since he didn’t graduate from college, he’s more of an autodidact than a scholar. Come to think of it, though, that would make him a Rogue Scholar. (Usually, punning isn’t among his vices.)
Russ writes about:
1. Nuclear deproliferation.
2. Foreign relations with the Middle East.
3. Understanding what makes Americans tick.
He spends much of the rest of the time trying to figure out what makes his 12-year-old son tick.
"It's hard to tell people not to smoke when you have a cigarette dangling from your mouth."
-- Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
ISIS atrocities, real or imagined, only guarantee reprisal will be merciless
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria may be clever and rich but stoking the revenge machine reveals how impoverished its collective imagination is. Over the weekend the Sunni militants of Islamic […]
ISIS: common enemy of Iran and the United States
It’s ironic that Iraq’s last two enemies now stand ready to defend it against a third enemy, ISIS. The advance of ISIS into Baghdad is on hold at the moment in part […]
Nuclear weapons are an aging society, too
Bet you never heard of nuclear gerontology. In 2004 anthropologist Joseph Masco wrote a seminal article for the August issue of American Ethnologist titled Nuclear technoaesthetics. He followed that up with a […]
Did the U.S. revive Operation Paperclip for a terrorist?
The United States seems to have granted asylum to a terrorist as it did Nazi scientists after World War II. In the New York Times, Mark Landler reports about a new biography […]
Was Reagan’s nuclear about-face at Reykjavik genuine?
Was Reagan’s conduct with Gorbachev at the Reykjavik summit ― soon to be a major motion picture ― in fact, disingenuous? On May 13 Variety reported on a movie that’s been long […]
Is the climate change fight better off without Joe Q. Public?
If global warming was shifted to the backburner, fighting it might generate less opposition. In an opinion piece at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dawn Stover recently wrote: Apparently most Americans have […]
Nuclear weapons are like the wedding at Cana
The supply of nuclear weapons can seem endless. Remember the story in the Gospel of John from the Bible’s New Testament about the first miracle of Jesus Christ? To refresh your memory, […]
Boko Haram makes Al Qaeda look benign in comparison
What do you expect from a group whose founder doesn’t believe in ― never mind evolution ― evaporation? Not many in the West are aware of just how frequently Nigeria’s Islamist terrorist group […]
Don’t blame Shariah for honor killings in Afghanistan
Afghan justice is buried three sub-basements down. In the New York Times, Rob Nordlund has been covering the story of young Afghan couple Zakia and Mohammad Ali, who, after eloping in March, […]
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