Honoring Our Rapid Reax
May 26th, 2009 by Nick Saint
A long weekend, but a short roundup due to limited activity around the blogosphere and in the world of politics over the holiday - though Kim Jong Il apparently didn’t get the memo…
- … as he decided to carry out a nuclear test today. As symbolic gestures go, making a fuss when failed states run by crazy people play with nuclear weapons is a pretty good use of outrage, but the big picture isn’t all that different from what it was yesterday. The DPRK has a much more advanced nuclear program than we’d like, but is in no position to threaten us directly at any time in the near- or medium-term.
- Speaking of nuclear weapons and the crazy people that want them, Fareed Zakaria is arguing that Iran might not want to be a nuclear power after all. His evidence: statements by Iranian politicians. If that sounds pretty naive to you, I’m not unsympathetic, but his argument - that an Islamist government that thought it was about to go nuclear would have to be pretty stupid to keep calling the Bomb un-Islamic - has some teeth to it. I wouldn’t sell your stock in BunkerBuilders just yet, though.
- I have a guest internet clogging up Alaska’s tubes.
