We Know North Korea Has The Plutonium

The Globalization That Has Swept Away The Barriers To The Movement Of Goods, Ideas And People Has Also Swept With It Barriers That Confined And Localized Security Threats.

As Much As We Egyptians Treasure Our Military, Acting Alone It Cannot Provide The Legitimacy To Lay The Foundations For Democracy.

I Worry About A Democracy Having Nuclear Weapons As Much As A Dictatorship Having Nuclear Weapons.

We Have No Functioning Parliament In Egypt And Months Ago Mohammed Morsi Assumed Legislative Functions. Now He's Decided That There Should Be No Opposition To The Laws That He Makes And That He Is Authorized To Pass Any National Security Measure. It Is Difficult To Be More Absolutist Than That. And The Constitutional Convention - What A Sad Gathering; It Threatens To Send Us Back To The Darkest Period Of The Middle Ages.

We Must Abandon The Unworkable Notion That It Is Morally Reprehensible For Some Countries To Pursue Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Yet Morally Acceptable For Others To Rely On Them For Security - And Indeed To Continue To Refine Their Capacities And Postulate Plans For Their Use