a vote at this time on the measure. That AIPAC press release prompted a rare rebuke from one of the group's biggest allies on the political right. William Kristol issued a statement from his organization, the Emergency Committee for Israel—a group that has also fought for the Kirk-Menendez bill—warning, "It w

the kind of brinkmanship it has not engaged in since the Cold War," wrote Eisenstadt, in a paper entitled, "Not By Sanctions Alone." And uber-hawks William Kristol and Jamie Fly of the Foreign Policy Institute, a neoconservative think-tank, writing in the hawkish Weekly Standard, exclaimed, "It's time for Con

cklessness. Convinced that the demise of the Soviet Union had freed the United States from all constraints, hawkish analysts (among them Kagan and William Kristol) urged policymakers to put American military muscle to work. Here are Kagan and Kristol in 2002, promoting preventive war against Iraq: Whether or