I think you can take Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) as a reliable source. There are good reasons to stiff-arm the LOST treaty – but for a short, quick reason, this will do.

LOST only identifies four circumstances under which ships may be stopped on the hi…..

Too many things that ought to get blogged about, but I’ll have to settle for these: Lileks boots Hollywood’s PC obsession with making sure you understand and sympathize with the bad guys–in this case, Imperial Japan. Forty years from now,……

The Clinton deal with North Korea resulted in them sealing their Uranium enrichment facility. I have read that their attempts at Plutonium enrichment were not dangerous (I don’t know why.). They broke the seals and restarted Uranium enrichment soon after the Bolton insult and seem to have made enough enriched Uranium for a bomb.

I am aware of the internet (calling it “internets” is an insult to Alaska Republican Senator Stevens who coined the term).

See-Dubya (#18)

Bolton is a polarizing figure, that’s for sure. I’ve heard the criticisms you’ve offered voiced by people in think tanks and the like.

You also hear them coming from people working in government. Maybe you can ask some privately. There is a reason they came out of the woodwork to oppose Bolton’s appointment as UN ambassador.

Steve Clemons’ blog is a good source.

1. We’re not sure if NoKo’s stopped enriching uranium under Clinton. We are absolutely positive they continued to manufacture plutonium – much better for bomb making anyway.

Anyone who thinks there’s anything more the US could have done – even if Plame had remained covert – in stopping or slowing down Iran’s enrichment program doesn’t know squat. The technology and even most of the hardware they are currently using was supplied by the AQ Khan black market network during the 1990’s – taking place right under the nose of Clinton.

Their ability to manufacture centrifuges also came from the Khan network – shut down by the Bush Administration in 2002. This led to the shutdown of the Libyan program and perhaps even the efforts by al-Qaeda to build their own bomb.

The non-proliferation desk at the CIA has been a joke for 50 years. As someone else mentioned above, it hasn’t stopped or even slowed down one single nation from getting the bomb.

Best you get your facts right before making ridiculous assertions.

I wish MM had given sources for all the speculation.

This here internets that Al Gore created is a pretty neat deal. There is a “new” feature you probably haven’t heard of yet – it is called “google”. What you do is go there and put in some key words, like say “syria” nuclear” and “israel” and some magic happens and you get this long list of articles on that topic. You might want to try that rather than whining about sources. I know these new fangled features can be confusing, but if you learn to use them it will prevent you from looking like a total tool.

Keep it up BrianNY and we may have to expand the Malkin 6 to Malkin 7!

To see another milestone in Bush counter proliferation, look at the effect of outing Valerie Plame.

lgm,

Whether she was “outed” by a career State Dept. official or not (Armitage was never charged with anything) why would you ever hold up Valerie Plame or the U.N. as standards of non-proliferation authority? It seems at least 3 formidable nations have gone nuclear
under their watch. Rogue nations have proven again and again that they don’t care what the U.N. or the Valerie Plames of the world say or do. John Bolton’s greatest sin against liberals of the world seems to be that he understands this clearly.

For this alone, I’d rather have one John Bolton calling them as he sees them than a thousand Valerie Plames pissing into the wind.

On October 20th, 2007 at 5:15 pm, lgm said:
To see another milestone in Bush counter proliferation, look at the effect of outing Valerie Plame.

Under Clinton, North Korea stopped manufacturing weapons grade Uranium. Under Bush, thanks largely to Bolton, they restarted this effort and tested a nuclear bomb.

As you are so fond of saying:

Sources? Liberal blogs do not count.

#17: You should wash your hands of those violent thoughts.

I think it safe to say that there are others here who need to wash their hands as well concerning you. I used to use my hands to clap for you when you did not start a thought with attacking Michelle (as you did wrongly in this case). I even clapped for you when you made comments that were on topic and you made a good point. None of that here. And not once have you ever comdemned a leftist jerk who said vile things to Michelle who, by her good graces, puts up with your constant bashing.

I don’t think we really do stuff like that, but what do I know?

The PSI is especially important because North Korea ships nasty stuff out in its maritime fleet… in 2003, there was the seizure of a North Korean boat full of heroin, the Pong Su, off the coast of Australia.
North Korean merchant ships may have played a part in this late unlamented Syrian construction project as well.

Um, doesn’t our Navy still have hunter submarines? Can’t they make some of these ships quietly disappear? Hey, the sea is a dangerous place. We can deny any involvement while making the world a better place.