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Get Ready for a Nuclear Iran

By John Bolton May 3, 2010 @ 10:21am

Negotiations grind on toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran's nuclear weapons program, even as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to address the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. Sanctions advocates acknowledge that the Security Council's ultimate product will do no more than marginally impede Iran's progress.

 

In Congress, sanctions legislation also creaks a…

Folding our nuclear umbrella

By John Bolton April 28, 2010 @ 12:11pm

Although media coverage of President Obama's unfold- ing nuclear policy has fo- cused on its implications for the United States, it is no less important to understand its effects on America's friends and allies. The New START arms control treaty with Russia, the administration's nuclear posture review, the recent Washington nuclear security summit, and the uncertainty surrounding May's Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference a…

A Treaty for Utopia

By John Bolton April 16, 2010 @ 2:54pm

On April 8, in Prague, the United States and Russia signed what they call the “New START” bilateral arms-control agreement, important specifics of which, in hallmark Obama-administration fashion (see health care), were still being negotiated. Nonetheless, the president and his acolytes are calling for the treaty’s swift ratification.

 

The Senate would better protect our country’s future by a…

Wartime Contracting hearing will probe federal oversight of billions in services contracts

By Clark Irwin April 15, 2010 @ 8:31am

ARLINGTON, VA, April 14, 2010 – Improving the federal government’s planning and oversight of billions of dollars in services contracts for Southwest Asia operations will be the focus of an April 19 hearing by the independent federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

Contracts for logistical support, translation, maintenance, security and other services are estimated to total $80 bil…

During International Crisis, Which Law Reigns Supreme?

By Deborah Weiss April 13, 2010 @ 12:15pm

At this critical juncture in history, the West is engaged in a long, unconventional war with radical Islam. Freedom hangs in the balance. The international community connives, seduces and pressures the US to work in “cooperation” with the rest of the world on matters of utmost importance. In the debate between internationalists and nationalists, which laws should govern, those of the international community or American law…