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Shmuel Rosner, at the Jerusalem Post, reads through Martin Indyk and Richard Haas’s Middle East advice for Barack Obama and notes that they come down on the "Syria-first" side of the negotiations debate. But he says that they don’t answer a key question: "What if Syria wants to keep its relations with Iran as close as […]

Over at the Corner, Michael Rubin sets his sights on my story yesterday about foreign policy consistencies between the incoming and outgoing administrations. It’s a baffling post: It suggests somehow that I’m marginalizing Republicans and repudiating bipartisanship, when my story makes clear that President-elect Barack Obama appears to be heading toward vindicating some Bush administration […]