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I understand that the J Street Project, which was launched officially only one month ago, is gathering supporters at a pretty good clip, and now its efforts to redefine what can be considered “pro-Israel” appear to be making some headway, at least in the two of this country’s most influential daily newspapers. Last week, Jeremy [...]
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For those of you who have not yet seen it, M.J. Rosenberg’s column on Bush’s analogy between Nazi Germany and Iran and the contretemps between the Obama and McCain camps over Hamas is a must read, by far the best meditation on both issues, particularly on the implications for the American Jewish community, that has [...]
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The always excellent National Journal has published a fairly lengthy profile, entitled “Betting Man,” of Freedom’s Watch sugar daddy Sheldon Adelson in its May 10 edition, which you can access here. Particularly interesting is the opening about last October’s private gathering of the “‘best and the brightest’ conservative voices talking about the terrorism threats [...]
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Gary Sick, who served as a top Gulf expert in the National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan, has written a brief essay for the Gulf/2000 project (which he directs at Columbia University) on the continuity of Washington’s approach to Iran from the Clinton through the Bush administrations and right into the presidential [...]
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Paul Wolfowitz’s admission that he and others were “clueless on counterinsurgency” at the Hudson Institute’s symposium on Douglas Feith’s “War and Decision” last week was certainly the lede as Eli Lake reported it in the New York Sun reported last week, but overlooked were the remarks on the same panel by Dan Senor who demolished [...]
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Is it possible that Freedom’s Watch has decided to focus on Republican Congressional campaigns, rather than the presidential campaign, because its principal funder, Sheldon Adelson, is worried that John McCain’s relative hawkishness toward China may be bad for his casino business in Macau? Adelson, who, according to the New York Times, has contributed virtually all [...]
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Diane Zeleny is not exactly a household name, but she was last in the news in December 2006 when the Washington Post’s Al Kamen reported that her appointment to a top job under then-Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes as the head of the “Public Diplomacy Rapid Response” office in Brussels had been overturned by the [...]
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Don’t miss the latest collection of advice — mostly from warhawks — in the New York Times “Week in Review’ section today which once again features what the Times calls “nine experts on military affairs” (in the
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The recent escalation of the Pentagon’s rhetoric against Iran and its alleged “increasingly lethal and malign influence” in Iraq, as Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, put it, has created new concerns about a possible military conflict before the end of the Bush administration, concerns fanned, as well, by the president’s own assertion during his [...]
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While the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has been coping with the abrupt exodus in February of most of the Democratic members of its Board of Advisers (leaving only Sen. Joseph Lieberman, James Woolsey and Zell Miller as its only “Democratic” fig leaves), its Republican loyalties have become ever clearer. Virtually unnoticed in that [...]
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