weeklystandard.com - 2/24/2009
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Joe Klein apparently understands the Russians better than they understand themselves, and certainly better than anyone else in the press corps. In his latest dispatch for Time , the self-styled bane of neoconservatives untangles the latest Jewish deception in foreign affairs :
Today Jackson ...
foreignpolicy.com - 3/1/2009
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foreignpolicy.com —
or the Western world, 1929 marked the start
of the Great Depression. For the Soviet Union, it
was a year that Joseph Stalin called the Great Break the ending of a short spell of semiprivate economic policy and the beginning of the deadly period of ...
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Reversal of Fortune
swampland.blogs.time.com - 2/24/2009
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Today Jackson Diehl picks up Charles Krauthammer's theme
of last Friday, which is that Barack Obama is
getting played by the Russians. This is a theme that goes back to John McCain's overreaction to the skirmish in Georgia last summer--and further, ...
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Goldfarb: Can’t Show Weakness In Front Of The Russians!
Wonk Room —
... Leaving aside former McCain spokesblogger Mike Goldfarb’s yawn-inducing insinuation that criticizing neoconservatives qualifies as Jew-baiting, I think his interpretation of President Obama’s response to Russia is interesting: ...
The Russians Are Coming? Really?
Swampland —
... Various conservatives have jumped on my support for President Obama's attempt to negotiate with Russia--and my belief we should keep in perspective Russia's various attempts to intimidate its near-neighbors. My favorite is Michael Goldfarb, who served as a McCain pistolero during the campaign and now blogs for the Weekly Standard. As we saw last year, Goldfarb has a penchant for reinventing history--and now he defends McCain's "We are all Georgians" blurt, and criticizes Barack Obama for calling on both sides to cool it. ...
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