news.bbc.co.uk - 12/16/2008
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Former US state department official Richard Armitage (file photo, Jan 2005)
corner.nationalreview.com - 12/11/2008
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corner.nationalreview.com —
From Reuters: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama plans to
offer Israel a strategic pact designed to fend off
any nuclear attack on the Jewish state by Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday. Which all sounds very nice, but implicit in such a ...
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Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran ...but only in retaliation
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The Heritage Foundation on YouTube
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... The perfect case study has to be Pakistan and Richard Armitage's infamous "we will bomb you back to the Stone Age if you don't co-operate in the war on terror" threat. That worked so well, as the citizens of Afghanistan and Mumbai will attest. ...
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... that Obama must "keep the threat of force on the table because that will help to keep Iran honest." Because people afraid of annihilation tell the truth, rather than whatever they think will avert that doom... The perfect case study has to be Pakistan and Richard Armitage's infamous "we will bomb you back to the Stone Age if you don't co-operate in the war on terror" threat. That worked so well, as the citizens of Afghanistan and Mumbai will attest. Then there's Heritage's new fearmongering documentary, "33 minutes", designed to pressure Obama into keeping ballistic missile ...
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Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
... on elements within Pakistan's intelligence service continuing to prop up the Taliban as it wages war in Afghanistan. The upshot is that threats to " bomb them into the stone-age " and " ...
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