* Joe dissects the Iranian regime's strategy in depth by looking at their geopolitical position, their interests, and their strategic imperatives. His conclusion? Hostility to America and subversion of their neighbours are really the only options open to the mullahs' theocratic dictatorship - regardless of America's actions.
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* Armed Liberal, as part of his long struggle to help bring his party back to sanity, gives Kerry's recent foreign policy speech a detailed level of scrutiny. I hope he's successful sooner or later. But anyway, you can take most of his analysis and put "Dean agrees" underneath it.
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* Finally, Windos Of Change's Korean correspondent looks at the hell that is the North Korean regime, in a disturbing and focused briefing.
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