Before the week is out, it’s worth noting the “Democracy & Security” conference in Prague last Monday and Tuesday where Bush, on his way to the G-8 Summit in Heiligendamm, confirmed once more — just in case his tightening embrace over the past year of Sunni-led authoritarian regimes around the Middle East had provoked any [...]
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In a truly remarkable statement published in the online version of his ‘Weekly Standard’ Wednesday morning, William Kristol essentially slapped George W. Bush with his glove, accusing him of disloyalty, indecency, and cowardice with respect to the president’s failure so far to issue a pardon for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney’s former chief of [...]
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For those of you interested in last week’s off-the-record meeting sponsored by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) on “Confronting the Iranian Threat: The Way Forward” in the Bahamas, we have a bit more information, specifically, a list of the intended participants and the program, and another on selected readings that the participants were [...]
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Helene Cooper’s article in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune Saturday could mark a decisive moment in the fight between the hawks and the realists within the administration.
That Cheney, via David Wurmser, has been shopping attack scenarios on Iran without Bush’s approval could very well bring things to a head. If Rice/Gates/Burns [...]
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