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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.

Recent Articles

THE NEOCON MERGE TEMPLATE REVEALED.

Matthew DussOct 03, 2007

Read the following and see if you can guess whether David Frum is writing about Iraq back in 2003, or about Iran today:

TODAY'S VERY SERIOUS, THOUGHTFUL ARGUMENT.

Matthew DussOct 03, 2007

Jonah Goldberg brings his favorite analytical tools, the broad generalization and the unsubstantiated assertion, to bear upon the question of "national culture," with predictable results:

WHERE PARODY GOES TO DIE.

Matthew DussOct 03, 2007

Via LGM, Ann Althouse on Hillary Clinton's laugh:

"I think it was her strategy to make us talk about that instead of substantive problems she has. It's a distraction. She's deliberately laughing in a way designed to derail us from going in a direction that would hurt her. (So was the cleavage.)"

WHO’S A TOUGH GUY? COME ON, WHO’S A TOUGH GUY?

Matthew DussOct 02, 2007

Glenn Greenwald on the fetishization of violence that characterizes Right Bedwetterstan:

"Bombing and killing Muslims is the only path for avoiding the humiliating scenarios which our nation's war cheerleaders carry around obsessively in their heads, and which are currently filling my inbox. They're not going to be the ones on their knees, begging. They're not going to be the "faggots." Instead, they are going to send others off to fight and bomb and occupy and kill and thereby show who is strong and tough and feel protected.

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THE BEAR PATROL MUST BE WORKING LIKE A CHARM.

Matthew DussOct 02, 2007

John Podhoretz:

"Is the surge in Iraq working? Consider this plain, simple and overwhelmingly powerful fact: Hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis are alive today, on Oct. 2, who'd be dead by now if there had been no surge.

There were 1,975 Iraqi civilian fatalities in August. In September, the number fell to 922 - a drop of 53 percent.

How do we know this decline is due to the surge? We can't know for certain, of course."

Wow, this is like the easiest blog post I've ever written.

--Matthew Duss

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