Matthew Duss

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

Recent Articles

I'D MAKE A SUGGESTION, BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN...

Anthony Cordesman takes a realistic look at claims of the surge's success:

"US and Iraqi forces are scoring important, if regional, tactical victories. However, these cover only western and central Iraq and may well be temporary. For all the claims that the “surge” worked, it is clear that it did not work purely on its own.

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GOING THE FULL GAFFNEY.

Via Rob, Frank Gaffney establishes the new standard by which all future spittle-flecked neoconservative hyperbole will be judged:

"It is fitting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose the U.S. Naval Academy for the venue of today's so-called Mideast peace conference. The reputation of that extraordinary institution in Annapolis has been sullied in recent years by a succession of rapes of young women.

CAN'T SHAKE THE DEVIL'S HAND AND SAY YOU'RE ONLY KIDDING.

Demonstrating the aluminum bat-like subtlety which, combined with an enthusiasm for rehabilitating the paradigms of 19th century colonial discourse, has made him a foreign policy guru for wingnut racists everywhere, Ralph Peters offers his version of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in today's New York Post:

"WHAT I HAVE TO DO IS TO SEE, AT ANY RATE, THAT I DO NOT LEND MYSELF TO THE WRONG WHICH I CONDEMN."

Responding to Chris Hedges' declaration that Hedges will refuse to pay his taxes if the U.S. goes to war with Iran, James Kirchick demonstrates one of the big features of the Marty Peretz clone software application suite, which enables the user to rebut any argument by asserting that The Nation was soft on Communism, and Arabs are stupid.

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