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Iran Beyond Its Borders

By | 06.23.09 | 10:44 am

This post is going to get filled, really fast, with irresponsible speculation. So let’s have some fun.

This Washington Post story about the Washington debate over Iran is revealing for two reasons. First, the administration doesn’t seem to be phased by Manichean, inwardly focused arguments through analogy about why President More…

If This Is Friendship to Israel, I’d Hate to See What Contempt Looks Like

By | 01.19.09 | 3:29 pm

Bill Kristol speaks to American Jewry:

As we recited this on Saturday, I couldn’t help but reflect that a distressingly small number of my fellow Jews seem to have given much thought at all to the fact that President Bush is one of the greatest friends the state of

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‘Breaking the Will of the Palestinians, of Hamas’

By | 12.30.08 | 9:18 am

So much for the empty-rhetoric option. Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, now in its fourth day, has yielded more than 360 casualties — all of them are Hamas, right? In one of the most densely populated regions on the planet? In a war prosecuted from the air? — and apocalyptic More…

In a ‘Society of Resistence,’ Peace Is Hell

By | 11.20.08 | 6:24 pm

Reflecting on today’s New York Times story about how Hezbollah’s youth corps are part of a planned holistic “society of resistance” built by the Shiite Lebanese militant group, Andrew “Abu Muqawama” Exum has a really profound insight:

A Grand Bargain for U.S and Iran

By | 10.14.08 | 3:26 pm

Just in time for a presidential election in which the economy has overshadowed foreign policy, two former Bush administration aides are calling for a “grand bargain” with Iran.

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, a married couple who served as Iran experts at the National Security Council during George W. More…