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Or maybe even 674 pages, the length of Douglas Feith’s recent opus, War and Decision.
As you can imagine, Israel does not figure prominently in Feith’s book, and you would never guess from reading it that, as early as 1996, Feith — along with David Wurmser and their common mentor, Richard Perle — was already [...]
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When Don Rumsfeld ruled over the Department of Defense, articles from the Daily Telegraph (and the Jerusalem Post) would often be featured in the Pentagon’s daily “Early Bird” compilation of important news stories that was then distributed throughout the national-security bureaucracy. Since Rumsfeld’s departure, however, the frequency with which Telegraph articles have appeared has diminished [...]
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A very good summary of how hard-line neo-conservatives see the world — and especially Israel’s place in it — can be found in an interview at the National Review Online’s (NRO’s) website by Kathryn Jean Lopez of Caroline Glick, the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post who also serves as the Senior Fellow for [...]
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I don’t follow the politics of the Washington Post’s Graham family, but Lally Weymouth (daughter of Philip and Katherine, mother of Katharine Weymouth, the newspaper’s current publisher) specializes in touring the globe, performing exclusive interviews with consequential world leaders, publishing them in Newsweek, for which she is a senior editor, and the Post, and thus [...]
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War?
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Once again, notably in the wake of this week’s annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference and the visit here of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, there’s a lot of chatter about a possible attack by Israel and/or the United States on Iran. Olmert appears to have left the White House (and a dinner [...]
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Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal editorial page is as hard-line as ever, today featuring a lengthy and by now familiar meditation by AEI “Freedom Scholar” and perennial intrigue entrepreneur Michael Ledeen on “Iran and the Problem of Evil.” Actually, the headline is a bit of a distortion because, in typical neo-conservative fashion, Ledeen compares the conflated [...]
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For additional analysis of Thursday’s Senate Intelligence Committee report on the Pentagon-Manucher Ghorbanifar meetings in Europe in 2001 and 2003, see John Walcott’s article published Friday by McClatchy, “Did Iranian Agents Dupe Pentagon Officials?”
Among other things, Walcott notes that it was Stephen Cambone, Rumsfeld’s intelligence czar, who shut down a counter-intelligence investigation into the [...]
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Much more on Luttwak’s history from Laura Rozen of the indispensable www.warandpiece.com.
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Just as Sen. John McCain once again went after Sen. Barack Obama for his willingness to engage Iran and other members of the axis of evil — before AIPAC’s annual policy conference here, no less — the Gallup organization, as I noted in my IPS story today, released the results of a new poll on [...]
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Monday morning marks the formal opening of the annual three-day policy conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) which, according to AIPAC’s press announcement of the event, is “consistently ranked as the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill.” You can expect a strong focus on Iran and a very hawkish line [...]
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