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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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Looking back on the run-up to the Iraq war, neoconservatives and their allies in the Bush administration took heavy criticism for engaging in “groupthink” that brooked no dissent. Bogus charges of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs constituted the most glaringly obvious example of this foible. [...]
Tags: faulty intelligence, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran threat, Iran War, Iraq War, matthew kroenig iran war, Max Boot, WMD
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Debacle!
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower
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By Tom Engelhardt
It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be “mission accomplished” all the way. And [...]
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In response to a worrying trend in U.S. politics Lobe Log is launching “Iran Hawk Watch”. Each Friday we will post on notable militaristic commentary about Iran from a variety of sources including news articles, think tanks and pundits.
Mainstream Media and Pundits:
Washington Post: Neoconservative media spokesman Charles Krauthammer (who argued that the U.S. had no [...]
Tags: Charles Krauthammer, David Frum, Ehud Barak, Emanuele Ottolenghi, foundation for defense of democracies, iran, Iran Hawk Watch, Iran nuclear, Iran nuclear war, Iran sanctions, Iran threat, Iran War, Iraq War, Mark Kirk, Matt Duss, matthew kroenig iran war, nuclear weapons
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As in the lead-up to the Iraq war, U.S. government civilians and the military brass appear divided over the prospect of war with Iran. In a recent interview, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey noted the differences between the U.S. and Israel over policy toward Iran, asserting a preference [...]
Tags: dempsey iran, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran threat, Iran War, Iraq War, israel, martin dempsey, Mike Mullen, mullen iran, Thomas Ricks, us military iran
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Only Washington Is Clueless
By Andrew Bacevich
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In every aspect of human existence, change is a constant. Yet change that actually matters occurs only rarely. Even then, except in retrospect, genuinely transformative change is difficult to identify. By attributing cosmic significance to every novelty and [...]
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The Obama administration’s announcement of a withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of the year offers the possibility of a definitive conclusion for the U.S. military’s involvement in Iraq. But while the return of all U.S. service men and women by Christmas is [...]
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On Tuesday Paul Pillar urged us to consider the dangerous momentum hawks gain when liberals echo their war drums by scrutinizing the “thinking and non-thinking” exemplified by Richard Cohen in his recent column about Iran. Cohen’s line of reasoning echoes that used by those who pushed for the Iraq war, writes Pillar, and his discussion [...]
Tags: drumbeat, hawks, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran plot, Iran War, Iranian plot, iraq, Iraq War, israel, liberals, National Interest, Paul Pillar, Richard Cohen, war drums, Washington Post
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Peter Crail has a post up on the Arms Control Association’s blog, Arms Control NOW, summarizing a recent analysis by Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Leif Eckholm which compares the invasion of Iraq with possible Iran invasion scenarios. As Crail notes, the comments made by Eckholm and other U.S. generals (not to mention former Mossad Chief [...]
Tags: Arms Control Now, iran, Iran military solution, Iran nuclera, Iran War, Iraq War, israel, James Cartwright, Leif Eckholm, Meir Dagan, Peter Crail
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The Saved and the Sacked
By David Bromwich
Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Obama presidency?
The record shows impressive continuities between the two administrations, and nowhere more than in the policy of “force projection” in the Arab world. With one war half-ended in Iraq, but [...]
Tags: Bush, David Bromwich, Debt Ceiling, Dennis Blair, Eric Holder, Guantanamo, iraq, Iraq War, Larry Summers, Obama, Patriot Act, Peter Orszag, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gates, timothy geithner, Tom Dispatch
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