wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 28 days ago
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At an American Enterprise Institute event today — “ Should Israel Attack Iran? ” (yes, they’re obviously trying to get peoples’ attention) — former Ambassador Martin Indyk revealed an interesting wrinkle to the story of Eastern European missile defense ...
pajamasmedia.com - 10/20/2009
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pajamasmedia.com —
As the organization’s major conference approaches, some pointed
questions for director Jeremy Ben-Ami.
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Showdown on J Street
online.wsj.com - 10/19/2009
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JOHN BOLTON The U.N.'s Human Rights Council (HRC)
voted overwhelmingly on Friday to endorse the recommendations of
the lopsidedly anti-Israel Goldstone Report. The report, named for former South African judge Richard Goldstone, who chaired the ...
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John Bolton: Israel, the U.S. and the Goldstone Report
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 28 days ago
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
One of the signature elements of neoconservative foreign
policy is a complete refusal to set priorities or
talk about tradeoffs. Whatever problem we happen to be talking about right now needs to be met with bold and decisive action, casting caution ...
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Neoconservatism’s Tradeoffs Problem
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Neoconservatism’s Tradeoffs Problem
Matthew Yglesias —
... One of the signature elements of neoconservative foreign policy is a complete refusal to set priorities or talk about tradeoffs. Whatever problem we happen to be talking about right now needs to be met with bold and decisive action, casting caution to the wind, irrespective of how that impacts other things around the world. Matt Duss brings us a great example, the contradictions between the neocon approach to Russia and the neocon approach to Iran: ...
Who Knew that Radical Right Wing Nationalists Could Disagree?
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Especially when they come from different countries? Former Ambassador Martin Indyk revealed an interesting wrinkle to the story of Eastern European missile defense system, which the Obama administration canceled last month, a move conservatives have heavily criticized as — what else? — appeasement. Recounting recent meetings with Israeli national security officials, Indyk said that “the Israelis were upset at the way that Bush had offended Russia with missile defense” in Eastern Europe. The Israelis, like many Americans and most of the rest of the world, ...
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americanthinker.com 17 days ago — The Washington conference of the new organization "J Street" was a fascinating but scary cultural experience.
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jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com 23 days ago — I'm telling people who are worried about the hijinks at the unofficial J Street bloggers' panel not to become overly bothered by it; it was a clownish event, and the people on the panel were marginal figures except in the rather circumscribed ...
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