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By Daniel Luban
National Review’s Rich Lowry:
A major irony in Bush’s policy is that Iran appears to be much better primed than Iraq for a transition to democratic government (although Iraq is managing it anyway). It hasn’t been devastated by sanctions and war the way Iraq was; its faux elections let people at least exercise their [...]
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By Daniel Luban
Daniel Halper writes in The Weekly Standard today:
On “The Early Show” this morning, Obama said that “what we can do is bear witness and say–to the world that the, you know, incredible demonstrations that we’ve seen is a testimony to–I think what Dr. King called the–the arc of the moral universe. It’s long [...]
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By Daniel Luban
It’s too early to declare a winner of the prize for “most unhinged right-wing commentary on the Iran crisis,” but National Review Online’s Andy McCarthy (currently a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies) makes a strong bid for it with his post today. While most right-wingers are taking the line that [...]
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By Eli Clifton
Clifford D. May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, is outraged that the New York Times website published a blog post stating that, “Cliff May argued that torture is justified against Muslims because they’re Muslim.”
The “slander(ous)” accusation that he supports torturing Muslims originates–as he is quick to point out–in a [...]
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by Ali Gharib
As a short follow up to Daniel’s post yesterday on Krauthammer’s Projections, I wanted to quickly mention that the neocons are not only projecting their wants and desires for the Middle East onto Iranians, but also onto President Obama.
On Thursday, the neoconservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal went so far as [...]
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Gary Sick just posted again on Khamenei’s speech Friday on his new blog and set the stage nicely for what could be a very dramatic weekend for Iran, the Greater Middle East, and the United States. Here it is:
Iran’s Leader, Ayatollah Khamene`i, gave everyone a piece of his mind in his Friday speech. Here [...]
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By Daniel Luban
Charles Krauthammer’s most recent column on Iran offers a concise distillation of neoconservative pathologies about the Middle East, and a demonstration of why the Iranian protesters’ self-proclaimed best friends in the U.S. may prove to be their worst enemies. In the course of excoriating Barack Obama for his alleged abandonment of the protesters, [...]
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By Daniel Luban
On Tuesday, Danielle Pletka and Ali Alfoneh of AEI published a New York Times op-ed claiming that the real and unnoticed story of the Iranian elections is that the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have “effected a silent coup d’etat” overthrowing the clerics. Pletka and Alfoneh (a frequent collaborator of AEI’s Michael Rubin and Frederick [...]
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Guest Post by Marsha B. Cohen
In an article posted on the website of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz early this morning, Dennis Ross reportedly revealed that he had been abruptly “reassigned”.
Since late February, Ross’ position in the Obama administration has been that of “Special Adviser for the Gulf and Southwest Asia” to US Secretary of State [...]
Tags: David Makovsky, Dennis Ross, Haaretz, Ian Kelly, iran, Israel lobby, Jewish Agency, JPPPI, PNAC, State Dept.
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Columbia University Prof. Gary Sick, who runs Gulf2000 and served as a top Iran policy expert on the National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan, posted his analysis of what has taken place in Iran and its possible implications for U.S. policy on his new blog, “Gary’s Choices,” earlier this evening. This is [...]
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