Archive for January 29th, 2003

He could have been speaking to Americans

Wednesday, January 29th, 2003

From last night’s State of the Union address: Your enemy is not surrounding your country — your enemy is ruling your country.

Yesterday’s Fresh Air on NPR featured an interview with Joseph Cirincione, who specializes in defense and proliferation iss ues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He’s no peace activist, but he does a great job debunking a lot of the Bush administration spin on the arms inspection, including the oft-mentioned aluminum tubes (which are not usable for nuclear weapons production).