General Wesley Clark, who I have no doubt would be managing matters in the Middle East with far greater skill and attention than our incumbent President, made a blunt nudge at Senator Joe Lieberman on Friday. Clark was blogging about the 2006 Elections on DailyKos.
George Will has sent to his client list a most amazing article — appearing in tomorrow’s Washington Post — that is a full-throttle attack on The Weekly Standard. Will blasts The Weekly Standard five times in his short, 770-word piece.
Bill Kristol is not the only one who wants America dragged into a worsening conflagration in the Middle East.
(U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and Ahmed Chalabi) There are some interesting strategic advisory firms out there — Kissinger McLarty Associates, The Albright Group LLC, The Scowcroft Group, The Ashcroft Group LLC, Wesley K.
For Sunday morning politics show followers, yesterday’s critiques of Israel’s actions and of the neoconservatives in America were heartening.
When I visited Israel in March, one of the more interesting dinner discussions I had was with former Mossad Director Danny Yatom, now a Labor Party member of the Knesset. As head of the Mossad, Yatom gave orders to have the head of Hamas, Khaled Meshal, assassinated by poison.
(Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo of Air America’s “Majority Report“) Tonight, 8:30 p.m. — Juan Cole and I will both be on with Sam and Janeane talking about the big mess in the Middle East up til 9:00 p.m.
This evening on “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer“, my new colleague at the New America Foundation and former staff member of the CIA, State Department and White House National Security Council, Flynt Leverett, will be sharing his knowledge base about Hezbollah.
ABC News is reporting that Palestinian Gunmen have blown a hole through an Egypt border wall and a flood of people crossed into Gaza. One can only speculate why anyone would rush into Gaza unless preparing to fight the Israeli incursion. My own speculation is that this may be a bunch of Muslim Brotherhood empathizers….
Headlines throughout the American media read: MAJOR ESCALATION as Israel has intensified its bombing campaign of the Beirut Airport and highways. 45 Lebanese civilians are reported dead.
