Lets just call this wordy mess what it is.

Beyond it's buddhist mindframe, and short pity statements which head nowhere:

... the Bush Doctrine has pushed us into a situation in which we can, strangely enough, see all this far more clearly.

That's exactly right. The Bush Doctrine had one virtue. As an imperial solution -- the United States will stop proliferation by military force, if need be, wherever it arises ...

The Bush doctrine is a similar thing, a bunch of old men talking about nothing from something. Just to fill in some gap while the mythological demon of Armageddon could be pushed closer to the front line unobserved, as we all busy ourselves chasing technology's tail fogged in by the economic pursuit of the day.

There were a series of articles concerning nuclear proliferation and the demise of the Soviet Union several years ago in Science. It is clear from those articles that the Bush administration effectively reversed the course of prior US policy in dealing with the consequences of that dissolution, and our ability to deal sanely with the left-over Soviet era nuclear material from the cold war.

It was as they say in this article almost as if they needed the failure to have an object of opposition against which to speak. Fogging our landscape with words, which had yet again some lessor connection to a present reality. Anything to remove the 'US' from 'them'. Anything to remove a present concern from our responsibility to providing a solution as citizens of the world.

KAZAKHSTAN: Plutonium Fields Forever

KURCHATOV, KAZAKHSTAN--A decade after inheriting the Soviet Union's vast nuclear testing range in Central Asia, authorities in Kazakhstan are only now discovering the extent of a dangerous legacy underfoot: plutonium hot spots that pose a serious proliferation threat. And access to the site is essentially uncontrolled and unrestricted.

Volume 300, Number 5623, Issue of 23 May 2003, pp. 1220-1224.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/300/5623/1220

Good Prediction, Bad News (Editorial)

Volume 295, Number 5556, Issue of 1 Feb 2002, p. 765.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/295/5556/765

NUCLEAR WASTE: 'Hot' Legacy Raises Alarm in the Caucasus

VIENNA--Can a crack international team secure two tremendously radioactive objects in the mountains of a strife-torn former Soviet republic before they fall into the hands of nuclear terrorists? The question may sound like a trailer for a James Bond movie, but it's for real. Science has learned that the International Atomic Energy Agency early this week dispatched a team to a remote area near Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region to grab the dangerous, portable devices.

Science 2002 February 1; 295: 777-779. (in News of the Week)

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/295/5556/777b

NONPROLIFERATION: Radioactive Sources Move From a Concern to a Crisis

Richard Stone

Science Dec 5 2003: 1644-1645

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/5651/1644a

NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION: Nuclear Trafficking: 'A Real and Dangerous Threat'

STOCKHOLM--The former Soviet Union's stockpile of fissile material remains dangerously vulnerable. Six seizures of weapons-grade nuclear materials have been reported over the past 2 years, indicating that a decade-long effort to lock down about 600 tons of Soviet-era highly enriched uranium and plutonium that is considered especially vulnerable--enough raw material for about 40,000 bombs--has far to go. Yet the Bush Administration has proposed cutting $100 million from a raft of programs to improve nuclear security in Russia.

Volume 292, Number 5522, Issue of 1 Jun 2001, pp. 1632-1636. (News Focus).

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/gca?gca=292%2F5522%2F1632&sendit.x=108&sendit.y=1

It's hard to see how this article helps clear a way through this chaos, when the intent of time appears to be for us to fail at recognizing and pacifying this construct of our minds.

Yes, Mitt detoured as any of us would were we in his shoes.

That this 'service' was a rather bland corporate shindig should not be any surprise to anyone with more than some passing knowledge of the institution that Hinckley led.

What would be a better use of Salon would be a detailed description of the person filling Mitt's shoes which led him back to the promised land yesterday. And how well he fitted not only those shoes, but their use as a foot soldier out among the rest of us heathens in the borderlands.

There's a Democracy Now report today, with additional Paxon McCain FCC background information concerning a Pittsburgh station:

Behind the John McCain Lobbying Scandal: A Look at How McCain Urged the Federal Communications Commission to Act on Behalf of Paxson Communications

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/22/behind_the_john_mccain_lobbying_scandal