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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 [...]
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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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Reposted by arrangement with Tom Dispatch
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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This is a guest post from Beirut by Marc J. Sirois, a writer and the former managing editor of the Daily Star newspaper in the Lebanese capital.
The run-up to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Lebanon called forth a barrage of comment from neoconservative circles. Unlike the savvy campaign for war in Iraq, however, [...]
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This is a guest-post by Dr. Serkan Zorba, a Turkish assistant professor of physics at Whittier College.
The Daily Telegraph foreign editor and correspondent Con Coughlin wrote a piece on September 14, 2010, in the British newspaper alleging that the party of the Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received $25 million from Iran. Coughlin provides no [...]
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Prompted by the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq (at least in letter, if not in actuality), many of the hawks who pushed hardest for the 2003 invasion are coming out of the woodwork to argue once again that the war was both successful and necessary. While most hawks have restricted their rhetoric [...]
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Jeffrey Goldberg made a mistake on NPR yesterday, in appearances talking about his controversial new article for The Atlantic.
“On Point” host Tom Ashbrook asked tough questions of Goldberg, confronting him with critics like Glenn Greenwald. Goldberg fired back that Greenwald had retracted his criticisms, thereby dismissing his arguments. In fact, no such retraction happened. Greenwald [...]
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