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It was last June that Roger Morris’s brilliant, three-part profile — or, more accurately, indictment — of Robert Gates’ career appeared on the always-excellent tomdispatch.com website, concluding that the situation in which the defense secretary found himself some eight months after Donald Rumsfeld’s departure:
“… is not a predicament that can be escaped simply by staving [...]
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Remember when Ronald Reagan warned more than 20 years ago that Soviet- and Cuban-backed revolutionaries were just “two days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas?” Well, the folks at Commentary, now under the editorship of John Podhoretz, are busy raising a similar specter, only it’s Iran this time.
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Charles Krauthammer has joined David Frum and Bill Kristol in concluding (bitterly) that the Iran NIE has made it impossible for George W. Bush to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities before the end of his term. Writing in his Washington Post column Friday, Krauthammer asserts:
“The administration understands that the NIE’s distorted message that Iran has given [...]
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Just to note that, in his weekly column for the National Post of Canada Wednesday, David Frum appears to agree with Bill Kristol that the NIE has made a U.S. attack on Iran before the end of Bush’s term highly unlikely. “The NIE,” he writes, “is a foundational political fact that will make it politically [...]
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I wish I could take as much comfort in the results of the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) 2007 Annual Survey of American Jewish opinion as Glenn Greenwald, but, unfortunately, I considered some of the findings quite disappointing, particularly when viewed in the context of the AJC’s previous polling.
In his article in ‘Salon’ yesterday, Greenwald argued [...]
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While hard-line neo-conservatives associated with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Commentary, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page (See Bret Stephens column, “The NIE Fantasy”, today) continue to rage against last week’s National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, two key — if more pragmatic — movement leaders appear to now be resigned to the fact that, [...]
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I’m still on the road in Europe and thus have had limited time to surf the internet, let alone check with sources back in Washington, regarding the impact of both Annapolis and release of the NIE on Iran’s nuclear program. But the latter event, in particular, naturally required me to rejigger my presentation, entitled “Iran [...]
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