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swampland.blogs.time.com - 1/6/2009
Kristol Blue Extrapolation
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Leave it to Bill Kristol to take the situation in Gaza--a necessary corrective action on Israel's part, I believe (with a few caveats)--and transform it into a call for war with Iran. But here he is, in today's Times: The huge challenge for the Obama administration is going to be Iran. If ...

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  Dreaming Of War

theatlantic.com - 1/5/2009
Iran's Postmodern Beast in Gaza - The Atlantic (January 5, 2009)
— theatlantic.com — Israel has just embarked on a land invasion of the Gaza Strip after a week of aerial bombing. Gaza is bordered by Egypt, and was under Egyptian military control from 1949 through 1967. And yet in a startling rebuke to geography and recent history and ... (more) Iran's Postmodern Beast in Gaza - The Atlantic (January ...

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israelnationalnews.com - 1/6/2009
Zahar Claims Victory, Calls to Kill Jewish Children - Defense/Middle East - Israel News
— israelnationalnews.com — (IsraelNN.com) Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Az-Zahar claimed victory for Hamas on Monday, saying Hamas had succeeded in “destroying Israel's sense of security” with its rocket attacks. Zahar made his proclamation in video footage sent from a secret ... (more) Zahar Claims Victory, Calls to Kill Jewish Children - ...

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lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/7/2009
"We have no grand political scheme"
— lynch.foreignpolicy.com — I spent the morning at a lecture organized by GWU's outstanding Homeland Security Policy Institute's Ambassador's Roundtable Series featuring Israel's Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor. It was a profoundly dismaying experience. Because ... (more) "We have no grand political scheme"

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Dreaming Of War
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Joe Klein fisks Kristol: In the end, Kristol's saber-rattling is the death rattle of a simplistic, extremist ideology that has caused the U.S. great damage. A more sensible, centrist approach to international affairs won't have the bang or melodrama of military kinetics. It will take time to work, if it works. But it also won't have the bloodshed and torture that have stained our nation's history these past eight years. The longer I observe the neocons the more I realize that for many of them, war is a natural state of being, even a ...

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