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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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GUNS FOR EVERYONE!

Matthew DussOct 16, 2007

And the award for "Most Transparently Ridiculous and Astonishingly Vulgar Attempt to Commandeer the Armenian Genocide Resolution Controversy for Their Own Pet Issue" goes to …National Review's Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne D. Eisen:

"Whatever may be said about the U.S. House of Representatives committee vote concerning the use of the term “genocide” in reference to Turkey’s atrocities against the Armenians during World War I, two facts are indisputable: It was gun confiscation that made the atrocities possible. And it was the possession of firearms that saved many Armenians."

GIULIANI'S RADICAL IMAM

Matthew DussOct 12, 2007

How insane is Rudy Giuliani's Middle East adviser Daniel Pipes? He considers the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, which has held for almost thirty years, to be a trick:

"No significant peace process exists now, nor has it ever. Israel's signing of a diplomatic agreements with Egypt (1979), Lebanon (1983), the PLO (1993), and Jordan (1994) all proved ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst.

IN WHICH I GO RIGHT FOR THE THROAT

Matthew DussOct 11, 2007

Michelle Malkin responds to Ezra’s health care debate challenge by taking several thousand spittle-flecked words to essentially say that while she'd love to give Ezra the whupping he so richly deserves, she thinks she hears her mother calling her for dinner, and she has to run home right now.

SHOCK AS SCHTICK.

Matthew DussOct 11, 2007

Shorter Ann Coulter:

"Inside every Jew, there is a Christian trying to get out."

--Matthew Duss

WORD FOR THE DAY

Matthew DussOct 10, 2007

NRO's Rich Lowry just got back from Iraq, where he learned a new word:

"The word that one hears again and again here, but is so rare in the domestic political debate, is “complex.” The war is changing at least every six months, and every area of the country — even every neighborhood in Baghdad — has a different dynamic. An officer at Forward Operating Base Justice in northwestern Baghdad explains that one translator who works there has to take three or four different taxis to get to the base, with a different faction ready to kill him from neighborhood to neighborhood."

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