Funny. Idfnadesk's Channel. The Democrats & National Security - The New York Review of Books. Us vs.
Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America’s Security by J. Peter Scoblic Viking, 350 pp., $25.95 Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats by Matthew Yglesias Wiley, 251 pp., $25.95 Since the Vietnam War the Republican Party has developed a reputation for having a superior approach to national security. Partly, this is for particular historical reasons. President Reagan of course did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
President Clinton, elected just after the cold war ended at a time when national security was not a dominant concern, never really recovered from having been branded a draft-dodger, alienating the military by his botched effort to integrate gays into the armed services, or presiding over the 1993 fiasco in Somalia. In the 2000 election George W. This faith in Republican toughness has had profound electoral consequences. Working groups on Greening Foreign and Security Policy.
How to Win the War on Global Warming - The Environment. Americans don't like to lose wars—which makes sense, since we have so little practice with it.
Of course, a lot depends on how you define just what a war is. There are shooting wars—the kind that test our mettle and our patriotism and our resourcefulness and our courage—and those are the kind at which we excel. But other struggles test those qualities too. What else was the Great Depression or the space race or the construction of the railroads or the eradication of polio but a massive, often frightening challenge that we decided as a culture we ought to rise up and face?
If we indulge in a bit of chest-thumping and flag-waving when the job is done, well, we earned it. We are now faced with a similarly momentous challenge: global warming. The rub is, if the vast majority of people increasingly agree that climate change is a global emergency, there's far less consensus on how to fix it. Halting climate change will be far harder than even that.
Climate Change and Security. Latest News Events Contacts Latest News RUSI evidence papers included in new Government climate change report News: 11 Jul 2011Expert RUSI analysis has been used by the Government to publish its new report on climate change.
Planet Ark : UK to Spur Research Into Climate Impact on Poor. The World Environment News is a daily environmental update bringing you all the latest environmental stories, pictures and video from across the globe, courtesy of the Reuters news service. if it’s happening in the world of environment, it’s happening in the World Environment News.
Latest News (170 stories) China finds nearly 2,000 firms in breach of anti-pollution rules Photo: Suzie Wong Date: 11-Apr-14 Country: CHINA Author: David Stanway Nearly 2,000 Chinese enterprises were found to be in violation of state pollution guidelines following a nationwide inspection campaign covering 25,000 industrial firms, the environment ministry said on Thursday. Informed Comment: Bush Grasp of Reality Tenuous. Farideh Farhi, at our group blog, Global Affairs, says she listened to Bush’s press conference on Tuesday — which was full of implausible statements — and now wants to know what George W.
Bush has been smoking. Uh, I don’t think that substance is typically smoked so much as snorted. Or maybe his current favorite is just a stong bottle of beer. Israel challenges US findings on nuclear Iran. George Bush today ruled out a change in Washington's Iran policy following the declassification yesterday of a US intelligence report that concluded Tehran had abandoned its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
The US president denied the national intelligence estimate (NIE) - which said Tehran's determination to develop nuclear weapons "is less ... than we have been judging" - had undercut his administration's repeated assertions that Iran was building nuclear weapons. "Iran was dangerous. Iran is dangerous. And Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," Bush told his first White House press conference in nearly seven weeks. OK, now we're not going to bomb Iran. - By Fred Kaplan. If there was ever a possibility that President George W.
Bush would drop bombs on Iran, the chances have now shrunk to nearly zero. In one of the most dramatic National Intelligence Estimates ever, the 16 agencies of the U.S. intelligence community concluded today "with high confidence" that Iran "halted its nuclear weapons" four years ago, in the fall of 2003. Fred Kaplan is the author of The Insurgents and the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Follow The NIE, which was released this afternoon, also judges "with moderate confidence" that Iran won't be "technically capable" of producing enough materials for an atom bomb—much less the bomb itself—until 2010-15 or possibly later. War Room: Political News, Politics News - Salon. The SWISH Report (9)