amazon.com - 12/17/2008
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The White House and the Middle East—from the Cold War to the War on Terror The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war. But it was not always so—and as Patrick ...
middleeastsolutions.org - 12/14/2008
news.yahoo.com - 12/13/2008
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AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he
wants Middle East nations to help fight the spread...
of violent extremism by funding and training Afghan security forces and reaching out more aggressively to the fledgling government in Iraq.
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Gates asks Middle East to help fight terror spread
(AP)
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/18/2008
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Kevin Drum writes that One way or another,
there's really no way for the economy to grow...
strongly and consistently unless middle-class consumers spend more, and they can't spend more unless they make more. This is a widely held view, and I'm as much ...
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Do we need the middle class?
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Slam drunk: George Tenet cursed neocon "Jews" from prince Bandar's pool
Majikthise —
Wherein late-stage empire imitates reality TV: Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg recently picked up a copy of Patrick Tyler’s forthcoming book, A World of Trouble,
which focuses on “America’s tortured relations with the Middle East.”
Goldberg says that the book’s prologue contains a “whopper of a scene”
featuring former CIA director George Tenet “drunk on scotch, flailing
about Prince ...
Howie, in Mali, sends back an online book preview: "George Tenet, Drunk in Bandar's Pool, Screaming about Jews"
DownWithTyranny! —
Has the Medal of Freedom become a badge of infamy? by Ken Howie writes: "I just arrived in Mali. Now I'm REALLY in Africa." And with this he sent back the following nugget from HuffPost: George Tenet Screamed About Jews In Saudi Prince's Pool: Book The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg offers an interesting ...
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George Tenet's Drunk Pool Party —
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This scene certainly has the air of plausibility. Patrick Tyler paints the picture in his new book A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--From the Cold War to the War on Terror. DCI George Tenet is in Riyadh at Prince Bandar's place. He's drunk, he's in the pool, and he's ...