Bang the Drum

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Entries Tagged ‘Iran’

Righting Wrongs on Iraq

There’s a lot of breast-beating in the blogosphere this past week about how many were wrong about the war in Iraq, and why. I especially appreciated John Cole’s candid and honest confession:
I thought I would list what I got wrong:
Everything.
And I don’t say that to provide people with an easy way to beat [...]

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Nexus or No?

I can’t help wondering if there’s a relationship between Dick Cheney’s visit to Iraq last week, the attacks on the Green Zone, and the possibility that the al Sadr cease-fire may be coming to an end.

The future of Iraq will be discussed in his closed-door talks with leaders of Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Palestinians [...]

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Ronald Reagan: A Reminder

Technorati Tags: iran-contra, reagan, oliver north, scandal, arms for hostages

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Obama’s Passport File Breaches: A Timeline

January 9, 2008: The New Hampshire Primary. Even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, Barack Obama tied her in delegates. Barack Obama also challenged the Bush administration assertion that an encounter with Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz was aggressive.
Employees of the United States Department of State also accessed Barack Obama’s [...]

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Refocus

And refocus. Andrew Sullivan wrote this piece in July, 2007 and it rings truer today than it did then. Sometimes it’s worth turning off the noise that’s getting louder and more shrill and just…
thinking.
About what we want our future to be. About what it really means to be safe. [...]

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Hillary Clinton’s Experience

There have been at least 100,000 words written about Hillary Clinton’s “experience” (or lack of it). There have been hours upon hours of pundit pounding about it. Speech upon speech has been given, sound bites piled on. It really just comes down to this: A Senator with foreign policy experience would [...]

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