Without explicitly referencing the current U.S. administration, [UN Secretary General Kofi] Annan challenged various elements of American foreign policy, including the use of preemptive strikes in the war in Iraq.
“What kind of world would it be, and who would want to live in it, if every country was allowed to use force, without collective agreement, simply because it thought there might be a threat?” Annan said, to applause from the audience.
Isn’t that the kind of world we live in now? What nation, besides the USA, has ever asked for collective agreement before going to war?
Without explicitly referencing the current U.S. administration, [UN Secretary General Kofi] Annan challenged various elements of American foreign policy, including the use of preemptive strikes in the war in Iraq.
“What kind of world would it be, and who would want to live in it, if every country was allowed to use force, without collective agreement, simply because it thought there might be a threat?” Annan said, to applause from the audience.
Isn’t that the kind of world we live in now? What nation, besides the USA, has ever asked for collective agreement before going to war?
Specifically, the commission will recommend that:
[…] NASA allow the private industry “to assume the primary role of providing services to NASA, and most immediately in accessing low-Earth orbit […]”
If NASA deserves to exist at all (a point I consider unresolved), then it should be doing science that can’t (or won’t) be done by private interests. Hauling mass to LEO is not in that category and private development in that area has been stymied by NASA for decades.
Looks like a pretty good night for the Conservatives in the local elections, winning seats from both Labour and the Lib Dims (who have lost more councils than they’re gained so far), and a bad one for Tony Blair. Most of these councils are urban, and therefore more naturally Labour in the post-Thatcher political world, yet they’re still losing. They lost Newcastle, for goodness’ sake (and I wonder how Mr Spin will react to that).
The spin is that the losses are about Iraq, but given the success of the UKIP, it seems that Eurosceptism was a bigger factor. But we can’t say that in public.
In the comments to this this post by David Cohen, J.H. serves up a sweet plan for dealing with “fixing” politically incorrect names:
I definitely think you’ll probably eventually see some counties in various states especially ones with weird Indian names or ones named after people that nobody remembers take on the Reagan name.