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| A War We Just Might Win' Authors Discuss Surge Success With Chris Wallace |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 12:40 am |
| Tags: Iraq, Military, Chris Wallace, Kenneth Pollack, Michael O Amp 039 Hanlon, Brookings Institution, Fox News, Fox News Sunday |
| developments.WALLACE: Michael, what can you add to that, particularly this question that I asked Secretary Rice about, which is sectarian violence, this argument that this is trying to provide some kind of a circuit breaker in terms of the sectarian civil war?MICHAEL O'HANLON, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: The way I would summarize it, Chris, we |
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| Greenwald vs. O'Hanlon |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 2:02 pm |
| Tags: Iraq War, Michael O Hanlon, Kenneth Pollack, Glenn Greenwald, Media, Propaganda |
| Kenneth Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon, who positioned themselves in the op-ed as "harsh critics" of the war. Glenn Greenwald masterfully documented the degree to which that assertion was an out and out lie, and has since followed up with an extensive interview with Michael O'Hanlon, laying bare just how frought with half-truths, blatant |
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| Notes from the Green Zone |
| Published: August 18, 2007, 3:10 pm |
| Tags: Iraq, Michael O Hanlon, Kenneth Pollack, Traditional Media |
| Kenneth Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon, just back from a quick trip to Baghdad, proclaimed in the New York Times that "we are finally getting somewhere in Iraq." In June, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, fresh from his latest whirlwind tour of the war zone, described in the Wall Street Journal a "dramatic reversal" in the security situation in |
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| Dipping My Toe... |
| Published: August 19, 2007, 11:09 am |
| Tags: Kenneth Pollack, Intervention, Michael O Hanlon, Iraq War |
| debate foreign policy. It's Michael O'Hanlon's job to think about military policy, not foreign aid or the value of the International Whaling Commission or what not. People who become part of this community tend to have expertise and military affairs, and people who develop such an expertise tend to think that the details of military affairs are |
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| O'Hanlon Lies Again |
| Published: August 25, 2007, 10:13 pm |
| Tags: Michael O Hanlon, Kenneth Pollack, Iraq |
| to answer his critics, O'Hanlon reasserts the basic lie that should have discredited him and Pollack before the Times printed the op-ed that created the furor that O'Hanlon is supposedly responding to. But back to the most recent lie, which frames the entire piece: Unfortunately, much of the blogosphere and other media outlets have |
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| If Only We Could Get Brookings To Take Over the Twins |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 3:37 am |
| Tags: You Haven T Spotted The Sucker In The First Half Hour You The Sucker, The Fiasco, Kenneth Pollack, Michael O Hanlon, Baseball |
| I really don't understand why Matt won't take the Pentagon's secret evidence at face value; would they really lie to use about such matters?In related news, on a superficial, fuzzy-math, pre-9/11 way it may look like the incomparable Horacio Ramirez has been torched for 67 runs and a .400 OBP in a great pitchers park while striking out only 32 |
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| Improvements |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 5:43 pm |
| Tags: Michael O Hanlon, Iraq, Iraq War |
| I try very hard not to toss out too many “Orwellians” out there when I write. It’s not that I don’t think that there’s a lot of Orwellian stuff going on, it’s just that, well, everyone’s doing it, and I’m an individual, damn it. But when I read the following headline, the very first word to pop |
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| Why Not Just Merge With the AEI and Be Done WIth It? |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 10:47 am |
| Tags: I M In Ur Think Tank Supporting Ur Opponents Policeez, Michael O Hanlon, Peter Hoekstra |
| the dead-ender's dead-ender Michael O'Hanlon, but if features Peter Hoekstra. Yes, that Peter Hoekstra: the guy who did a presser with Dead Senator Walking Rick Santorum -- in 2006! -- announcing that Iraq really did have scary, scary WMDs. The Peter Hoekstra who claimed that leaks about the administration's illegal activity may have been |
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| HRC Joins Third Termer Crowd |
| Published: October 5, 2007, 10:42 am |
| Tags: Hillary Clinton, Michael O Hanlon, 2008 |
| learn that none other than Michael O’Hanlon is Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy Advisor now. Michael O’Hanlon, if you will remember, was one of the two Brookings Institute “war critics” who penned an optimistic paper on the so-called progress in Iraq. It would later come out that O’Hanlon was actually never |
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| Yeah, But The Numbers Back Me Up |
| Published: October 5, 2007, 4:23 pm |
| Tags: Polls, Real Clear Politics, Hillary Clinton, Michael O Hanlon, 2008, Iraq, Iraq War |
| One thing that has yet to fail to boggle my mind is this idea that Democrats who were politicking on defeat are about to get their just desserts, and any Democrat that is not willing to switch over to hawk mode does so at his or her own peril. Not that we have to worry about the her part. Hillary has by now switched into full hawk mode, |
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| The Hackitude Spreads... |
| Published: October 8, 2007, 11:58 am |
| Tags: Extremely Rare Health Care Blogging, Michael O Hanlon |
| out how to react to this Michael O'Hanlon column on health care. The first thought that struck me was "What the hell is Michael O'Hanlon doing talking about health care?", but on further consideration that's not quite right. My professional training is in international relations, but that hardly stops me from blathering nonsensically about |
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| What Was Said 'Back Then' |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 7:06 pm |
| Tags: Iraq, Michael O Hanlon, What Was Said Back Then, Liberal Hawks |
| bad lot, but "liberal" hawk Michael O'Hanlon certainly ranks high on the list. Like many of others in that category, O'Hanlon criticizes the Cheney-Bush Administration's "mismanagement" of the Iraq war and occupation. But, thanks to the media's willingness to give a forum to people who were utterly wrong about the Iraq attack, he still has a |
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| Broken Records |
| Published: November 19, 2007, 6:09 pm |
| Tags: Hillary Clinton, Fred Kagan, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, Michael O Hanlon, Military, War, Al Qaeda |
| that liberal critic of Bush, Michael O’Hanlon, to make the case launching military operations in Pakistan. Their plan would be first for Special Forces to go into Pakistan to secure nuclear weapons and relocate them to a safe place, and barring that, send in a broader military force to get the job done. For this latter, scarier plan of |
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| Hill Democrats Explore New Strategy on Iraq |
| Published: December 5, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Hill, Democrats, Explore, New, Strategy, Iraq, George W Bush, Michael O Hanlon, Harry Reid, Rahm Emanuel, United States, Usa Today, Baghdad, Capitol Hill, David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Iran, Syria, The Brookings Institution, U S Marine Corps |
| Facing increasing evidence of military progress in Iraq, some Democratic congressional leaders are eyeing a shift in legislative strategy that would abandon a link between $50 billion in additional war funding sought by President Bush to a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops. Instead, they would... |
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| Hill Democrats Explore New Strategy on Iraq |
| Published: December 5, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Hill, Democrats, Explore, New, Strategy, Iraq, George W Bush, Michael O Hanlon, Harry Reid, Rahm Emanuel, United States, Usa Today, Baghdad, Capitol Hill, David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Iran, Syria, The Brookings Institution, U S Marine Corps |
| Facing increasing evidence of military progress in Iraq, some Democratic congressional leaders are eyeing a shift in legislative strategy that would abandon a link between $50 billion in additional war funding sought by President Bush to a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops. Instead, they would... |
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