voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/6/2009
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Obama is making me nervous, whats with all the Clintonistas in his cabinet? Are there no capable new people? What happened to his message of change? Obama has not had the audacity to comment on the massacres being committed by the Israelis on the Palestinians before Bush leaves office. Thats ...
walt.foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009
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walt.foreignpolicy.com —
Over at Salon.com, Glenn Greenwald has posted some
typically sharp and forceful comments on the gap between...
American public opinion on the conflict in Gaza and the public stance taken by our politicians. Citing a recent Rasmussen poll , he shows that ...
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Stephen M. Walt | A FOREIGN POLICY blog
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/6/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
In the very early days of the Bush
administration, Karl Rove asked a Washington policy wonk what...
personnel changes he'd recommend to newly arrived George W. The wonk said "there is one matter of life and death: he must replace Tenet at CIA and put in ...
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Panetta to CIA
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/6/2009
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Noah Pollak asked me to provide some framework
for a discussion of proportionality and just war theory...
with respect to the Israeli attack on Gaza. In re-reading my Catechism and brushing up on just war theory, I am struck first of all by how alien ...
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Proportionality And Terror
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First off-- UJ at B5 beat me to it, but I was planning a period of instruction on artillery munitions. It seems that every other photo from Operation Cast Lead is of long tendrils of white smoke and fire emanating from airbursts. Those, dear readers, are the the M825 155mm felt-wedge projectiles. (Photo lifted from B5, source unknown.)
Second-- Meet the Harriet Miers of the incoming administration. UJ and MMM weigh in. What, there was no one more qualified for this critical post?? In the middle of an intel-intensive long ...
A suitable director for a post-modern CIA?
Power Line —
... My first reaction to Barack Obama's selection of Leon Panetta as CIA director was puzzlement. After all, Panetta has no real background in intelligence gathering or analysis. ...
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Today in The Nation: Gaza Attacks
thenation.com 1/9/2009 — Katrina vanden Heuvel UN Human Rights Rapporteur Richard Falk condemns Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and calls for a new approach to provide real protection for the Palestinian people.
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democracyarsenal.org 1/2/2009 — There are few topics more difficult to discuss in foreign policy circles than the Arab/Israeli conflict. Opinions on both sides are so hardened that it's become nearly impossible to have a cogent and unemotional conversation on the topic. But, I love ...
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Israel Alone
pajamasmedia.com 1/5/2009 — I am writing this moments after the announcement of the Israel Defense Force that they have invaded Gaza . The first thing that struck me is that, for now at least, it is not Mark Steyn’s prescient America Alone . It is Israel Alone!
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ISRAEL, WRONG.
prospect.org 12/28/2008 — This is the paragraph that I can't get out of my head:
Hamas had in recent weeks let it be known that it doubted Israel would engage in a major military undertaking because of its coming elections. But in some ways the elections have made it ...
Bush puts onus on Hamas for any Gaza truce —
Reuters: Politics 1/5/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush insisted on Monday that any ceasefire to end the Gaza crisis must include provisions to prevent Hamas from continuing to use the coastal strip to fire rockets into Israel.
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