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online.wsj.com - 1/14/2009
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Hillary Clinton said at her confirmation hearing for secretary of state that the new administration would move quickly to engage Iran and Syria. (Remarks)
newyorker.com - 1/9/2009
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newyorker.com —
On January 27th, President Bush, in an interview
with the Times, assured the world that “torture is...
never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture.” Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer who was born in Syria, was surprised to ...
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Annals of Justice: Outsourcing Torture: The New Yorker
salon.com - 1/12/2009
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salon.com —
[updated below -- Update II (Obama's prior NIE
statement)] Regarding Barack Obama's statements about Iran yesterday during...
his ABC News interview, Charles Davis makes an excellent point (h/t Jonathan Schwarz ): President-elect Barack Obama in an ...
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Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran - ...
nybooks.com - 1/18/2009
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nybooks.com —
COMMENTS ON THIS ARTICLE The central recommendation of
this article is that the US must engage Iran...
directly and without preconditions, one of the primary recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. These distinguished authors have a firm grasp of the ...
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How to Deal with Iran - The New York Review of Books
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World Reaction to Hillary
Taylor Marsh —
... Back here... Jay
Solomon of the Wall Street Journal has a smart article up that includes
Syria, catching Kerry’s question on whether we will finally, at long last, have
an ambassador to Syria under Obama, but more specifically what that would mean
to U.S. policy in the region. ...
The siren song of Syria and Iran
Yourish.com —
... While some of the measures that President-elect Obama seems to be taking are pragmatic, others are less comforting. For example Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton says that she plans to engage Syria and Iran soon. ...
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