walt.foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009
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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 Americans "are closely divided over whether ...
newsweek.com - 1/4/2009
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newsweek.com —
Jews worry for a living; their tragic history
compels them to do so. In the next few...
years, there will be plenty to worry about, particularly when it comes to Israel . The current operation in Gaza won't do much to ease these worries or to address ...
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Obama Must Get Tough With Israel to Achieve Peace | ...
jta.org - 1/6/2009
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jta.org —
Top Democrats are planning to introduce a nonbinding
congressional resolution supporting Israel's goal in its Gaza Strip...
operation.
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Dems plan pro-Israel resolution
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Dan Drezner, Marc Lynch, Tom Ricks, David Rothkopf, and Stephen Walt have fancy new digs at Foreign Policy. ...
A New Power Rises in the East Blogosphere
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... , and the rest on successfully selling out. I'll be following the blogging of Israel hating monster and mild mannered realist Stephen Walt with particular attention...
The Think Tank Industrial Complex
Matthew Yglesias —
Steven Walt says:
Here’s why it won’t happen any time soon. As Cindy Williams, former director of the National Security division of the Congressional Budget Office and now a senior research scientist at MIT, points out in an as-yet unpublished paper for the Tobin Project, DOD is insulated from serious cuts by an array of impressive political advantages. First, its budget is more than 50 percent of all federal discretionary spending, and its sheer size gives it a lot of bureaucratic clout. Second, the Pentagon ...
Time: Israel Can’t Win
Matthew Yglesias —
... and and one of the things the Washington Post Company did after buying Foreign Policy was hire Walt. There was a neocon effort to intimidate Joe Klein into backing down on something or other he said and that didn’t work. And now what’s on the cover of Time magazine but ...
"They even killed the cats!"
Informed Comment —
... Stephen Walt points out at his new blog that the Israelis think they got deterrence with regard to Hamas because the operation restored their own confidence. But you only get deterrence if you break the will of the enemy, which manifestly did not happen. ...
Are You Smarter Than an Israeli Prime Minister?
democracyarsenal.org —
... Perhaps Bibi has been reading too much Stephen Walt,
but I don't think the Israel Lobby is going to have much of a leg to
stand on in arguing against US pressure on Israel in response to this. Bibi has given Obama a golden opportunity to almost painlessly put pressure on Israel's new government. Let's hope he takes it. ...
The Stephen Walt - Robert Kagan Court
The Washington Note —
... I don't have time to go into why I think that this would be one of the tickets of the decade to get if one could eavesdrop on any in-person debate -- but I can't wait to read whatever Stephen Walt will or won't blog about his engagement with Kagan about which books to push and which to bury. ...
Obama's Afghan Dilemma: The Only Real Exit Strategy Is Political Suicide
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... "He has figured out that the stakes are not as great as he once believed; that the commitment looks open-ended; that the conditions there are not promising; and that if he's not careful, this will be a dead weight around the rest of his presidency," says Harvard international relations professor Stephen M. Walt, who also blogs for Foreign Policy. "And so he's looking for an alternative." ...
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