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The Pentagon’s “Early Bird”, a computerized daily compilation of dozens of defense- related articles from the U.S. and some from the foreign press that is widely distributed across the national-security bureaucracy, appears to be in a state of serious transition from the Rumsfeld era to that of Robert Gates.
Articles from the Murdoch press are [...]
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In light of the new disclosures about Vice President Dick Cheney’s modus operandi in the ‘Washington Post,’ particularly the allusions to his indifference to public or Congressional opinion, his quotation from almost exactly 20 years ago on the significance of the Iran-contra scandal on future foreign policy-making takes on a certain irony.
“No policy can [...]
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As my colleague, Khodi Akhavi, points out today in an article entitled “Neo-Cons Spinning Hearts and Minds,” neo-conservatives are gaining greater control over the U.S. public diplomacy even as they have lost influence in other parts of the national-security bureaucracy. Jeffrey Gedmin, previously with head of the Aspen Institute’s Berlin office and before that a [...]
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Are more compelling than usual and serve as a reminder that Bill Kristol’s notions of “national greatness” and a “New American Century” are funded and promoted by more than Rupert Murdoch and pro-Likud activists and their Christian Zionist fellow-travellers. Presumably in honor of this week’s Paris Air Show, Pratt & Whitney are zooming jet fighters, [...]
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It seems the Democratic-led House of Representatives Thursday approved an amendment that, contrary to the leadership’s intention, lays the legal groundwork for a protracted – if not “permanent” — U.S. military presence in Iraq.
During debate on the 2008 Foreign Operations bill, the House approved by voice vote an amendment submitted by Iowa Republican Rep. [...]
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Zbigniew Brzezinski’s keynote address on June 12 at the America in the World Conference sponsored by the Center for American Progress was quite a remarkable analysis on the subject of “National Insecurity and Global Security”. Its point of departure was recent international public opinion polls which have found that the three countries viewed by the [...]
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While neo-conservatives continue to insist that they believe in democratization throughout the Islamic world (most recently at their “Democracy & Security” conference in Prague where President Bush himself gave a rousing speech on the issue), their sincerity on the question, particularly when it comes to the possible election of Islamist parties, remains very much in [...]
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Thanks are due to the Wall Street Journal where Bret Stephens mentioned our blog posts in his column today. Although Stephens avoids referring to LobeLog by name, he does cite an unidentified “internet sleuth” who broke the story about an off-the-record conference held by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) in the Bahamas May [...]
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If you’re interested in and alarmed about how the Bush administration and its neo-conservative supporters contributed to the current crisis in the Palestinian Territories, there is probably nothing as clear and concise out there as Friday’s analysis, from which the following excerpt is taken, by M.J. Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Forum.
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A closer look at the participants list at the Prague Democracy and Security conference that was the subject of my last post discloses some intriguing associations that I had not noticed at first glance but which may warrant additional attention. Not only was the gathering a kind of “Neo-Conservative International” and the corridor chatter all [...]
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