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On the heels of President George W. Bush’s latest threats against Iran for its “murderous activities” in Iraq, the Weekly Standard has obligingly published a 30-page report by Kimberly Kagan, spouse of Surge co-architect and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow Frederick Kagan and director of an entity called The Institute for the Study of War, [...]
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“This October 22-26, I am declaring Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” declared David Horowitz Tuesday in a friendly interview on www.FrontpageMag.com, one of Horowitz’s many front groups. “I will hold demonstrations and protests, teach-ins and sit-ins on more than 100 college campuses. Our theme will be the Oppression of Women in Islam and the threat posed by [...]
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Just four days after the American Enterprise Institute will launch its September 6 “All or Nothing” campaign to save the Surge, it will debut “Freedom Scholar” Michael Ledeen’s forthcoming book, “The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction” (St. Martin’s Press), a rehash of neo-con arguments for “regime change” – by military force, [...]
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The neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which contributed so much to the propaganda and planning for the Iraq invasion and subsequent occupation, appears set to launch its “Defend-the-Surge” campaign in the run-up to the presentation of and Congressional debate over the Petraeus-Crocker report on Thursday, September 6, with an afternoon forum whose title, “’No Middle [...]
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I’m back from the Cascades and Seattle and have spent most of the five days since my return to Washington getting caught up with my reading and office work. I hope to blog over the coming week on some of the events I missed, including the budding case for cross-border raids into Iran and the [...]
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I’m on way to do some backpacking in my native Pacific Northwest and may not return to the blog for as much as two weeks. Bearing in mind Andrew Card’s famous dictum in the run-up to the Iraq war, “From a marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August,” it may be [...]
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Today’s quotation in the Financial Times attributed to Danielle Pletka, the Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy Studies of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), was a stunner. “If we …begin to sanction foreign companies through more stringent sanctions in the Iran Sanctions Act, I think there will be serious repercussions for our multilateral effort.”
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Does former UN Amb. John Bolton – now with the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) — still speak for Dick Cheney?
The new British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown must be scratching its collective head over that question given the truly unbelievably arrogant and threatening op-ed Bolton, a Cheney protege, published in Wednesday’s Financial Times.
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Do neo-conservatives believe that Bush can be as easily intimidated by their rhetorical rage as he is seduced by their lavish praise?
It would seem so, at least at 1150 17th St., N.W., where both the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard are based. After all, Kristol excoriated Bush, even questioning his manliness [...]
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