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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 [...]
Tags: Foreign Policy, iran, Iran War, israel, Jundallah, Mark Perry, Mossad, MSNBC, OJAK, Robert Baer, Turkey
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Sheldon Adelson rode in like an apocalyptic horseman to save the campaign of Newt Gingrich with a $5 million donation to Newt’s super-PAC, Winning Our Future.
Adelson is perhaps the most well-known heavy hitter among contributors largely motivated by their extreme hawkish stances on Israel. He has been honored by the far-right Zionist Organization of America [...]
Tags: AIPAC, Foreign Policy, israel, Newt Gingrich, Sheldon Adelson
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The winner of the next presidential election will face a struggling world economy and a Middle East in the process of dramatic political transition, but GOP presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain appear intent on scaring the public about fanciful dangers of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.
The [...]
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Former pizza company CEO and GOP candidate Herman Cain started his presidential campaign — quite by accident, it seems — as an advocate for a cherished Palestinian ideal to return to their homelands throughout historic Palestine by endorsing the “right of return.” But he’s come a long way since [...]
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Herman Cain has stumbled into a number of foreign policy gaffes. But in a Meet The Press interview with David Gregory, Cain found himself revealing that his foreign policy vision is largely formed by neoconservatives while claiming that he was “not familiar” with the neoconservative movement. [...]
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Jon Huntsman laid out his foreign policy views on Monday, but, while showing a strong grasp of U.S.-Asia policy and calling for a scaling back of U.S. military deployments, his vision of the U.S. role in brokering an end to the Israeli-Palestinian bordered on incoherent.
Early in his [...]
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Mitt Romney’s eagerly awaited foreign policy speech at the Citadel was welcomed by neoconservative hawks who supported the George W. Bush administration’s adventurist foreign policy. But Romney’s speech stood out in that it was full of dire predictions for the future — indeed some were downright apocalyptic — while offering few if [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Fear, Foreign Policy, iran, Iran nuclear, israel, Mitt Romney, neoconservatives, sanctions, speech, Taliban
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Today former Massachusetts governor and current Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced his campaign’s foreign policy team. Many of the names are drawn from the foreign policy establishment and prominent Republican-associated security circles. “Their remarkable experience, wisdom, and depth of knowledge will be critical to ensuring [...]
Tags: Eliot Cohen, Foreign Policy, GOP, iraq, Mitt Romney, PNAC, Robert Kagan
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The fall issue of the Washington Quarterly has just published what may end up being the worst, most garbled policy piece on Iran within the last decade or so. Curiously, the authors, Kenneth Pollack and Ray Takeyh, are mainstream centrists who claim that they have long “articulated both the rationale and the broad features of [...]
Tags: Doubling Down, Foreign Policy, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran-US relations, Kenneth Pollack, Ray Takeyh, sanctions, Washington Quarterly
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In September Kenneth M. Pollack of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations published a paper in the Washington Quarterly endorsing a largely stick-based policy approach to Iran. Stephen M. Walt has analyzed it on his Foreign Policy blog and in doing so offers a proper [...]
Tags: Doubling Down, Foreign Policy, iran, Iran nuclear, Kenneth M. Pollack, Ray Takeyh, Stephen Walt, Washington Quarterly
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