Blog entries can’t always be a priority, well, unless you actually get paid to do it. But when the priorities change and blogging has to slide down the list the unfortunate side effect is missing out on a swathe of great opportunities to think and comment on events in your chosen field.
In this regard the Arab Spring has been particularly generous offering a succession of spurious or even fantastic claims regarding the impending use or sale of “secret” WMD arsenals. These claims, some of which have been embarrassingly outrageous, have mostly, but not all, been tied to Libya and Egypt. As the year progresses it is likely that Syria will attract a little more attention on these lines as well.
The fun part is that this has tended to drown out discussion of some of the more disturbing trends, such as Iran’s continuing pursuit of the various elements needed to provide a workable nuclear weapons capability.
I am going to try and return to my past approach of trying to put out some of these noxious little brushfires while thinking about some historical developments.
Maybe it will work out better this time.
Proliferating Thoughts 