Category Archives: Middle East

Israel’s ‘America Problem’….

Posted on May 25, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

or more accurately, Israel’s ‘self-appointed leadership of the American Jewish community’ problem.
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Posted in Jewish Stuff, Middle East | 3 Comments

Ambassador Kurtzer: A Jewish View of Israel and Obama We Never Hear in the U.S.

Posted on May 18, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

The former ambassador to Israel endorses Obama. Why? The need for diplomacy.
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Posted in Jewish Stuff, Middle East | 3 Comments

Israel Has Won

Posted on February 11, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the problems I have with the U.S.’s self-appointed Jewish leadership is that too many of them appear to believe that Israel will be annihilated at any moment. In today’s NY Times, Daniel Gavron puts that fear in proper context.
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Posted in Jewish Stuff, Middle East | 5 Comments

Remember This Veteran’s Day…

Posted on November 11, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

…the 202,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who have sought disability assistance.
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Posted in Civil Liberties, Middle East, Military | 2 Comments

Bush Administration Destroys Another Intelligence Operation

Posted on October 10, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

As if outing Valerie Plame, whose primary task was to monitor and contain WMD proliferation in the Middle East–including Iran, wasn’t bad enough, the Bush Administration destroyed another intelligence gathering operation for political gain.
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Posted in Fucking Morons, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Middle East, News Media, Terrorism, We're Really Fucked | 7 Comments

Bush Administration Used Taliban’s Weapons Dealer as Subcontractor

Posted on October 9, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

What’s one more criminal in the mix, anyway?
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Posted in Iraq, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Middle East, Military, Terrorism, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 3 Comments

Iraq and the Catastrophic Failure of the U.S. Political System

Posted on September 10, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

What happens when the public overwhelmingly holds an opinion that isn’t even represented in the government or among the Mandarin class? Tyranny.
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Posted in Fucking Royals, Iraq, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Middle East, News Media, We're Really Fucked | 7 Comments

Now I’m Starting to Get Really Scared That We’re Going to…

Posted on September 8, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

…attack Iran.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Middle East, Military, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 23 Comments

Sunday Sermon: Anti-Imperialism Is Not Pacificism

Posted on August 26, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

The Very Serious Foreign Policy experts need to get that.
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Posted in Iraq, Middle East | 3 Comments

(The Iraq) War Is a Force That Gives Us Them Meaning

Posted on August 25, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Yes, I’ve cribbed the title from Chris Hedges’ superb, must-read book, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. But Josh Marshall stumbles across a great insight about the Iraq War and Occupation, but doesn’t quite carry through all the way. So the Mad Biologist will.
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Posted in Iraq, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Middle East, Religion, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 4 Comments