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April 16, 2021 Let’s start by saying it could be worse: This isn’t a cartoon but a classic illustration by Elizabeth Butler of The march to Jalalabad began with 4,000 soldiers and 12,000 civilian supporters, but was reduced to badly wounded ass’t surgeon William Brydon, alone on a pony that died of its own wounds shortly after arrival. Granted, the British returned to level Kabul, put their chosen leader back in power and maintain him for about another decade, but there’s a reason Afghanistan is called “The Graveyard of Empires.”   Drew Sheneman (AMS) asks how we can exit g...

First U.S. Nuclear Power Closures in 15 Years Signal Wider Problems for Industry As the economics of building plants and maintaining old ones erode, some experts see little hope for an industry being touted by some as a climate savior. By Elizabeth Douglass September 24, 2013 The survival of the nation's nuclear industry is hanging in the balance. Map showing closed or closing nuclear power plants (in red), as well as plants especially vulnerable to future closures (in yellow). Experts say the closures are due to low power prices, rising costs and other economic woes (larger map below). Credi...

You can't just say, as mitch mcconnell has said, congress could do this. yes, well, task them to do it. it's interesting, also, that donald trump responded when he said, when he said the intelligence community has said that russia was responsible for the hacking, he returned saying, well, people told us that saddam hussein had -- iraq had weapons of mass destruction. they did not. the intelligence community never said that. the evidence -- there is no intelligence to support that claim. that threat was made by the bush/cheney administration. as you see in britain, they've dispelled all of that...

Republican party on national security and foreign policy after the catastrophe of the last republican administration, the bush/cheney administration. we really need two parties who are good at this issue in order to have good policy on this issue. we need good debate because this stuff is hard and our best decisions will come out of good, robust debate. can the republican party hold up its end of the debate. what would the republican party become on national security after the disaster of bush and cheney? huge question. huge, important question. please, god, let this not be their final answer....

Important to me. just the power, devastation, that's what really counts, right? it has been a really interesting question in american politics as to what would happen in the republican party on national security and foreign policy after the catastrophe of the last republican administration, the bush/cheney administration. we really need two parties who are good at this issue in order to have good policy on this issue. we need good debate because this stuff is hard and our best decisions will come out of good, robust debate. can the republican party hold up its end of the debate. what would the...