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Reexamining the Iranian bomb threat ... we've been there before
Time does indeed fly. This article was first published in July, 1998, in the wake of successful nuclear explosions by both India and Pakistan. Despite the gravity of the situation, the political recriminations on both sides were mere spasms in the midst of the "all Monica Lewinsky all the time" news coverage of the period. Given the history that's followed, with Pakistan our closest ally in the area and both countries more or less divorced from their perpetual sword rattling over Kashmir, it is perhaps instructive in the debate over the Iranian bomb.
Perhaps the theory of Mutual Assured Destruction can still work, on a local scale at least. Though the Pakis assuredly still don't love their Indian brothers, and vice versa, in recent years neither side has shown any notion of widespread, deliberate provocation.
And perhaps a nuclear armed Iran, in M.A.D. partnership with a nuclear armed Israel, might go a long way toward easing THAT almost sixty years of perpetual conflict.
Aug 31, 2006, 20:42
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Impeaching The Constitution
Hypocrisy on the Hill
This piece was first published in the October, 1998 issue of United Press International's now defunct Gridlock Magazine.
It is relevant now because impeachment is once again in the air. Though democrats now speak in terms of "restoring fiscal responsibility" and other high minded objectives, what they really want is subpoena power.
And when they get it, Bubba's republican inquisitors will be replaced by Bush inquisitors. What goes 'round comes 'round.
May 16, 2006, 11:03
