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Pipes Advocated Arming Saddam as ‘Protector of Regional Status Quo’

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3 Responses to “Pipes Advocated Arming Saddam as ‘Protector of Regional Status Quo’”

Zhu Bajie says:

September 23, 2007 at 6:26 PM

Perhaps Pipes is one of those many people who cannot admit that any of their whims or ideas or prejudices are wrong.

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Jeanne Capozzoli says:

September 24, 2007 at 7:25 AM

That Guiliani has named Daniel Pipes and Norman Podhoretz as his foreign policy advisors is most frightening. Do you think that this is an attempt to get a lock on the Israel Lobby for his campaign? Or does Guiliani really believe that we should take on the Muslim world (all 1.3 billion of them in 57 countries) into a World War IV which Podhoretz has long desired?

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Richard Silverstein says:

September 24, 2007 at 12:04 PM

Do you think that this is an attempt to get a lock on the Israel Lobby

Basically, yes. It’s purely a ploy to capture the support of wealthy Jewish Republican donors. Walt-Mearsheimer note that up to 60% of primary contributions for Democratic presidential candidates comes fr. Jewish donors. You can imagine that Jewish Republican donors would be quite generous as well. This is a cynical attempt to sow them up for the primary campaign.

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