Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 13th, 2010: Huffington Post: Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch calls for the United States to bomb Iran. Citing the concerns of Sunni Arab allies, Israel, and even Europeans, who Koch says would...

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Charge, Don’t Kill, Anwar Awlaki

The following appeared in the Gallipolis Daily Tribune last week and in today's Union Daily Times. CNN has become the latest to brand Anwar Awlaki, a US citizen born and raised in the United States, as not just a “terrorist,” but indeed the “New bin Laden.”...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 12th, 2010: Foreign Policy: Michael Eisenstadt and David Crist, both fellows at the AIPAC-formed and often hawkish Washington Institute for Near East Policy, write that President Obama must...

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Government Lies Make Leaks Explosive

The Pentagon is caterwauling that the next round of WikiLeaks’ disclosures of US government documents will be even more damaging than the last round. It is always touching to see the world’s most powerful military machine portray itself as a “pitiful, helpless...

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Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 11th, 2010: The Atlantic: Jeffrey Goldberg, in his long awaited cover story, claims that an Israeli unilateral attack on alleged Iranian nuclear facilities is inevitable if the United States and...

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Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 10th, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: Former UN Ambassador and current AEI fellow John Bolton offers his views on Chinese “hostilities” to the US and its allies. Bolton says that reports of...

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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 9th, 2010: The Washington Note: Steve Clemons says that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become a conflict that matters, “…far beyond the Israeli and Palestinian populations and is a...

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Linkage Just Won’t Go Away

As discussed by Ali on Wednesday, attempts to deny a linkage between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and broader U.S. strategic interests in the Middle East seem to be an ongoing theme of right-wing Israeli politicians and their supporters. But the “2010 Arab...

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