Comments on: Arms Control Person(s) of the Year https://totalwonkerr.net/2008/12/16/arms-control-persons-of-the-year/ Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:06:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AA https://totalwonkerr.net/2008/12/16/arms-control-persons-of-the-year/#comment-670 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:06:16 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/arms-control-persons-of-the-year/#comment-670 The Central Asians probably made a good deal. A brilliant study by Prof. Maoz shows that Israel didn’t benefit much from its nuclear weapons. The damage, however, is clear: no nuclear power plants, probably triggering the 1967 and 1973 wars and of course feeding the culturally embedded xenophobia.

I wouldn’t vote for Chris Hill. I admit I didn’t follow the negotiations with North Korea but it seems that whenever the NK agreed to something the US interpreted this as a sign of weakness and unilaterally changed the rules of the game forcing NK to quit. Neocon strivings for absolute dominance typically led to human disasters and political stalemates.

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