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Former Sen. Bob Kerrey, who is running to reclaim his seat after serving for most of the past decade as head of the New School, has come out strongly against war on Iran. Here’s the video of his statement:
This deserves some notice for a few reasons. First, Kerrey, who was highly decorated for his service [...]
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It’s important to understand the context here. Will Marshall was co-founder in 1986 of the Democratic Leadership Council (and, in that capacity, helped school Bill Clinton and Al Gore and other “New Democrats,” in the virtues of liberal interventionism a la Scoop Jackson). He later became head of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), a [...]
Tags: AIPAC, bill clinton, containment, Foreign Policy, iran, israel, Jackson, Lieberman, neoconservative, Obama, PNAC, PPI, sanctions, War, Will Marshall
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Vali Nasr Again
By Jim Lobe | Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Next steps for a U.S.-Iranian deal are prescribed by Vali Nasr, writing again for Bloomberg. He notes that the “window for negotiations is narrow” while making bold recommendations in the context of the constrained environment President Obama has gotten himself into.
Nasr is one of only a few prominent analysts who are pushing the argument for the [...]
Tags: Almonitor, Barbara Slavin, bloomberg, diplomacy, iran, israel, lift sanctions, negotiations, Obama, Russia, sanctions, Vali Nasr
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A friend of mine, who prefers to go unnamed, made an interesting observation about a rather convoluted effort by the managing director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Michael Singh, challenging Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey’s assertion in recent Congressional testimony that the Iranian regime is a “rational [...]
Tags: Barak, Bipartisan policy committee, Cartwright, Dempsey, Fallon, iran, Iran rational, iraq, israel, Mad mullah theory, Michael Singh, Osiraq reactor, WINEP
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In addition to Mitchell’s excellent post below, I would strongly recommend Robert Wright’s post entitled “AIPAC and the Push Toward War” on his Atlantic blog today. In that post, he refers to a letter sent by Lieberman, Graham and ten other senators to the White House last week that lays out what I believe is [...]
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Josh Rogin, the Cable guy at foreign policy.com, has a very important piece on statements made this evening by George W. Bush’s former NSA and CIA chief regarding the wisdom, or rather unwisdom, of a U.S. (or Israeli) attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. It’s an important addition to what appears to be the growing consensus [...]
Tags: Bush, CIA, Colin Kahl, don't attack Iran, General Hayden, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran threat, Iran War, israel, Josh Rogin
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Phil Weiss caught this before me, but I think it’s relevant to ask what a President Gingrich would do if multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson, by far the biggest contributor to Gingrich’s Super-PAC, Winning Our Future, asked him to do something on Bibi Netanyahu’s behalf that Newt might not think is in the U.S. [...]
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I think we’re seeing some serious distancing by the Obama administration from Israel’s provocations and possibly some serious interest in engagement with Iran, although the latter may be too hopeful a conclusion to reach.
CNN is reporting this afternoon that Washington has postponed what were supposed to be the joint missile defense maneuvers with Israel in [...]
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By now, I’m sure most readers of this blog are informed about Mark Perry’s blockbuster story Friday on foreignpolilcy.com that describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as U.S. spies to recruit and use members of the Jundallah group to carry out what the State Department and others have called a campaign of terror against Iran [...]
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I think they’re pushing for a stampede — that is, a frenzied rush by a panic-stricken herd of animals, or, in this case, the U.S. Senate or what is often referred to as “the world’s greatest deliberative body.”
From Sen. Graham’s office today:
http://lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=cdcb6c99-802a-23ad-4083-966d48cdd888&Region_id=&Issue_id=
Contact: Tate Zeigler (202-224-5972) or Kevin Bishop (864-250-1417)
Date: 01/11/2012
Graham and Lieberman to Introduce Resolution [...]
Tags: containment, Graha, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran threat, Iran War, Joe Lieberman
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