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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Danish Middle East Policy Blogging

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 11 2007, 8:36 AM ET Comment

I was watching some PBS show about the 6 Days War yesterday. They were talking about how Israeli PM Eshkol was under a lot of pressure to attack Egypt but, personally, didn't really want to. He was desperately seeking some kind of victory short of war that would relieve his position. Thus, he kept appealing to the western powers to use their navies to force open the Straits of Tiran, believing that Nasser would back down from such a confrontation, thus defusing the crisis without the need for war. The documentary explains that none of the western powers were going for it -- except Denmark.

The show didn't explain anything about why Denmark was so much more eager to involve itself aggressively in the situation than was anyone else. Does anyone out there in blog-land know anything about this?

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