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Matthew Duss

Matthew Duss is a foreign policy analyst and a contributing writer for the Prospect. You can follow him on Twitter @mattduss.

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THE QUALITY OF MERCY.

Matthew DussFeb 13, 2008

That Marty Peretz, he's all class:

Reports about the "horrors of Israeli occupation," Peretz adds, don't particularly impress him. "I'm not under the impression that Israeli occupation is kind and sweet. No occupation is kind or sweet. But bad things happen everywhere, all the time," he says dryly.

FLAWED AND UGLY.

Matthew DussFeb 13, 2008

Reuel Marc Gerecht celebrates President Bush's creative destruction:

Although the White House often seems bedeviled by the task of defining "victory" in Iraq, it really isn't that hard. Flawed and ugly as it is, Iraqi democracy stumbles forward. The Shiite and Sunni Arabs are slowly establishing representative political arrangements within their own communities that allow some diversity of opinion.

HAS OBAMA BEEN KRISTOLIZED?

Matthew DussFeb 11, 2008

Michael Cohen of Democracy Arsenal correctly flags a potentially disastrous development in Barack Obama's race for the Democratic nomination: Bill Kristol's prediction that Obama will likely win the Democratic nomination.

BOTTOM-UP RECONCILIATION.

Matthew DussFeb 11, 2008

Ha'aretz has this story on a potentially significant meeting between Palestinians and Israelis in Hebron:

The heads of the largest Palestinian clans in Hebron met with the Kiryat Arba local council chief and prominent leaders of the Jewish community in Hebron on Wednesday in what both sides described as a meeting of reconciliation, Army Radio reported.

Sheikh Abu-Hader Ja'abri, the head of a prominent Palestinian clan and a relative of a former mayor of Hebron, and the head of the Abu Sneinah clan, Haj Akram Abu-Sneinah met with the head of the Kiryat Arba settlement council, Zvi K'tzubar, and the heads of Jewish settlers in Hebron.

JUST THROW IT ON THE PILE.

Matthew DussFeb 11, 2008

A story in this morning's NY Times on how the U.S. Army buried a report critical of post-war planning in Iraq:

[The RAND Corporation] submitted a report in the summer of 2005 called “Rebuilding Iraq.” RAND researchers provided an unclassified version of the report along with a secret one, hoping that its publication would contribute to the public debate on how to prepare for future conflicts.

But the study’s wide-ranging critique of the White House, the Defense Department and other government agencies was a concern for Army generals, and the Army has sought to keep the report under lock and key.

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