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As many readers will know, recent weeks have seen a concerted neoconservative campaign against the Center for American Progress (CAP) and Media Matters on trumped-up charges of “anti-Semitism”. (Specific targets have included our former colleagues Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton, now at CAP, as well as Media Matters’s M.J. Rosenberg and CAP’s Matt Duss and [...]
Tags: AIPAC, Center for American Progress, iran, Iranian nuclear program, Iraq War, israel, Josh Block, Media Matters, neoconservatives
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Last week, Matt Duss took to the pages of National Review to urge the magazine to dissociate itself from the anti-Islam polemicists David Horowitz and Robert Spencer. Duss pointed out that National Review had first established itself as a voice of mainstream conservatism by denouncing the far-right conspiracy theorists of the John Birch Society, and [...]
Tags: anti-jihadism, David French, David Horowitz, Islamophobia, John Birch Society, Matt Duss, National Review, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer
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Has the apparent overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime in Tripoli vindicated NATO’s decision to back the rebels? Notwithstanding the flood of facile commentary claiming vindication over Libya war skeptics, it remains too early to tell. And although I myself was (very hesitantly) in favor of aiding the rebels in the days when Qaddafi’s forces were [...]
Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Elliott Abrams, humanitarian intervention, Libya, Muammar Qaddafi, William Kristol
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To follow up on Ali’s thorough post detailing Jennifer Rubin’s continuing problems with the truth, it’s worth taking a step back from the concrete details of the story for a moment. Rubin’s latest fibs — in which she mistakenly blamed Islamic militants for the July 22 massacre in Norway, failed to correct her mistake when [...]
Tags: Anders Behrin Brehvik, Jennifer Rubin, Ron Kampeas, Washington Post
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Noah Shachtman has the story about Adm. Dennis Blair, the former Director of National Intelligence, who just called for a sweeping reconsideration of U.S. strategy in what used to be called the “global war on terror”. In particular, Blair questioned the effectiveness of U.S. drone strikes, noting that whatever damage they might do to terrorist [...]
Tags: Dennis Blair, drone war, drones, Obama administration
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I’ve held off on commenting on the mass murders in Norway. Partly this was simply the result of a busy weekend (and I still can’t claim that I’ve managed to plow through more than a fraction of Breivik’s 1500-page manifesto). But partly it was from a sense of unease with how easily these kind of [...]
Tags: Anders Behrin Breivik, Andy McCarthy, Islamophobia, Mark Steyn, Norway, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, terrorism
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Recent news that the Obama administration plans to expand drone warfare in Yemen under the auspices of the CIA — the military has already been running a smaller-scale drone war in Yemen for some time now — highlights the need to make drones a more central topic of conversation in discussion of the U.S.’s various [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, drones, Libya, Pakistan, Predators, Reapers, Tea Party, yemen
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Seymour Hersh’s new piece in the New Yorker has generated a fair amount of buzz, so much so that Iran hawks have quickly leaped into action to try to discredit it. Virtually none of the criticism of Hersh’s piece has actually addressed the substance of his article, however, and since the article is subscription-only, it’s [...]
Tags: 2007 NIE, intelligence, iran, Jeffrey Goldberg, nuclear weapons, Seymour Hersh
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Jonathan Chait has a new piece (responding to M.J. Rosenberg) in which he attacks critics of the so-called “Israel lobby” for over-stating its power. The lobby has influence like any other, he suggests, but its unnamed “left-wing critics” claim that it “exerts not influence but total control over American foreign policy,” and “wields power…out of [...]
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Amid the array of hysterical reactions to President Obama’s Middle East speech — notable examples include Benjamin Netanyahu and Mitt Romney — one under-reported response came from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which blasted Obama for calling for Israel to return to the 1967 “Auschwitz borders”.
Referring to the 1967 lines as “Auschwitz borders” is an old [...]
Tags: Anti-Defamation League, israel, Marvin Hier, Palestine, Simon Wiesenthal Center
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