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</html><description>[Comment by Joshua Landis] Washington's Middle East policy is in deep trouble. The ultra conservatives,&nbsp;such as Bret Stephens of&nbsp;the Wall Street Journal, are advocating bombing Syria again in order to broaden the crisis. They believe that Hizbullah is too strong to do any remedial work in Lebanon to defeat it. Stephens knows that the Bush [&hellip;]</description><thumbnail_url>http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-BK986_oj_glo_20080512184439.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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