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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) wastes few opportunities to criticize the White House’s troop drawdown timetable in Afghanistan, but his latest criticism of the Obama administration falls back on conjuring up an implausible future terrorist attack conducted from within Afghanistan.
Lieberman told Fox News Sunday:
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The New Republic Editor Martin Peretz is no stranger to controversy but it’s worth noting that his blog post this morning, titled “Ahmadinejad At The Lebanese-Israeli Border—Another Obama Debacle,” managed to incorporate not one but two classic neoconservative arguments for why the U.S., or by proxy Israel, should act militarily against Iran.
First, Peretz [...]
Senator Joseph Lieberman’s speech on Wednesday at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington DC laid out his vision for “The Future of American Power in the Middle East” and echoed his calls to action from 2001 to 2003 when he, as a member of the Committee for the Liberation of [...]
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News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for December 7, 2010:
Commentary: J.E. Dyer, writing on Commentary’s Contentions blog, says that talks with Iran are futile and “the current process of negotiation and inspection is worse than irrelevant. It is counterproductive — because it gives Iran time.” Dyer describes Iran’s announcement that it is producing [...]