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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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IT'S THE GAME THAT'S WACK.

Matthew DussFeb 01, 2008

Barack Obama last night, with the money:

If we were concerned about Iranian influence, we should not have had this government installed in the first place, [and] we shouldn't have invaded [Iraq] in the first place. It was part of the reason that I think it was such a profound strategic error for us to go into this war in the first place.

COUNT THIS BLESSING, AMERICA.

Matthew DussJan 30, 2008

Let's all just take a moment to thank our lucky stars that Rudy Giuliani, a man who relentlessly tried to capitalize on the fear and confusion that Americans felt, and still feel, about 9/11, who tried and tried to sell himself as the embodiment of America's rage and the instrument of its unreasoning vengeance, and who offered America nothing but a future of disunity at home and endless war abroad, will not be president. If you have a loved one nearby, go hug him or her now.

--Matthew Duss

YES, BUT HOW STAUNCH?

Matthew DussJan 29, 2008

Noah Pollak has a follow-up smear to his earlier smear of Samantha Power, in which, among other delights, he interprets Powers' suggestion (in a 2002 interview, during one of the most violent periods of the second intifada) of the possible necessity of an American-led peacekeeping force in Palestinian areas as advocacy for "an American ground invasion of Israel and the Palestinian territories." You know, if you squint really hard and tilt your head ... no, not really.

"HOSTILE": IT'S THE NEW PINK.

Matthew DussJan 28, 2008

Over at Contentions, Noah Pollak writes “there has been an awakening in recent days to the presence of a disturbing number of foreign policy advisers to the Obama campaign who harbor hostile views of Israel.” As evidence of this “awakening,” Pollak offers a couple of articles by Ed Lasky, the substance of which hovers somewhere around your basic right-wing chain email, and a

SO I GUESS SHE WON'T BE CRADLING BUSH'S FOOT, THEN.

Matthew DussJan 25, 2008

Maybe if Peggy Noonan tried to avoid writing things like:

This, truly, is a good man. And that is a rare thing. Agree with Mr. Bush's stands or disagree, there can be no doubting the depth of his seriousness and the degree to which he attempts to do what he is convinced is right, and to lead his country toward that vision of rightness. We have had many unusual men as president and some seemed like a gift and some didn't. Mr. Bush seems uniquely resolved to be as courageous as the times require and as helpful as they allow. There is a profound authenticity to him, and a fearlessness too.

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