Because hey, he didn’t say the actual word!
They do this on purpose, by the way. Most Fox News viewers will not have seen the actual speech in its entirety, and because Fox News is the only “fair and balanced” network to report the “truth,” they will come away with this notion that Obama talked to […]

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Via Sullivan, Nir Rosen puts the Gaza fighting - and the word “terrorism” itself - in perspective:
Terrorism is a normative term and not a descriptive concept. An empty word that means everything and nothing, it is used to describe what the Other does, not what we do. The powerful – whether Israel, America, Russia or […]

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John McCain’s latest, taking Obama’s words out of context (of course), not noting that Obama said - correctly - that Iran was a minor threat compared to the Soviet Union:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhH2q6h7_Ow

I’ve little doubt though, that the ad will be effective. What it also is is the end of the line.
I’ve always marveled at how conservatives are […]

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Interesing debate going on with Sullivan, Daniel Larison and some others, regarding the role of Israel in our decision to invade Iraq, and the push to attack Iran. Indeed, Joe Klein actually uses the term “divided loyalties” in reference to the neocons, though Larison thinks that’s a bit much - suggesting instead something we hit […]

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As opposed to yesterday’s buy local thread, here we see that the Abu Dhabi Investment Council is about to buy 75 percenf of the venerable Chrysler Building in NYC for about $800 million.
So while we spend billions, and maybe ultimately trillions to “free” the people of the Middle East, quietly the Middle East, flush with oil money, buys up […]

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95 tomorrow, sez Heather Tesch and her new HD Weather Channel. Meanwhile, Drudge’s two “above the fold” stories are, first, about how and Israel deputy prime minister says that time is running out and if Iran “continues its nuclear weapons programme, we will attack it“; and second, that Israeli Prime Minister Olmert has “raised the […]

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This came up in the previous thread, and in fact comes up all the time with my winger correspondents, who seem to think that Israel, at some point, became the 51st state.
Israel is not the United States.
Israel is absolutely an ally, a crucial ally. And you may believe we owe some sort of moral fealty […]

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Just because conservatives have hopelessly fouled up the War in Iraq and needlessly antagonized the Muslim world on the whole doesn’t mean that Islamists like those in Sudan aren’t real, live whackjobs.

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Steve Clemons:
Don’t blame Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for all of the problems in Pakistan.
The fact is that governance in a region that is ambivalent about America, Europe and the West in general is becoming more complicated everywhere in the Middle East and South Asia. And it is America’s failure in Iraq, its unwillingness to deliver […]

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Interesting how Musharraf in Pakistan isn’t merely arresting political opponents, but rights activists as well. And so now we come down to the crux of it - Musharraf the dictator, trampling all over the type of democracy we’ve been attempting to spread around the Middle East, but the United States, desperately needing to keep the […]

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In Pakistan, sounds like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spYcp0ZB4nM

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