Wednesday, January 15, 2003

TAP: Where Are the Hawks on North Korea?

Faced with a real crisis, Bush does nothing.


Republican hawks smeared the Clinton policy and discover that now they are in charge they have no alternative. The end of the article is also recommending the same Clinton plan, secretly threaten North Korea with an attack on the nuclear plants while giving them public subsidies to close them down.

WHITE HOUSE DODGES ANTHRAX QUESTIONS

Bush Administration Stonewalls On Production of
Documents Concerning Decision to Put Staff on Cipro
Beginning September 11, 2001

The anthrax conspiracy theory won't go away.

Mother Jones has a real nice timeline of Bush's military "career."


Mother Jones -- America's Age of Empire: The Bush Doctrine

On September 20, the Bush administration published a national security manifesto overturning the established order. Not because it commits the United States to global intervention: We've been there before. Not because it targets terrorism and rogue states: Nothing new there either. No, what's new in this document is that it makes a long-building imperial tendency explicit and permanent. The policy paper, titled "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America" -- call it the Bush doctrine -- is a romantic justification for easy recourse to war whenever and wherever an American president chooses.

Only a longer extract than mine is online.

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