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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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By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 12 2007, 6:21 PM ET Comment

With regard to the Middle East nuclear free zone, Kevin Drum's quite right that for the US to unilaterally propose this only to have the Israelis reject it would be counterproductive. What I believe Brzezinski was saying is that Israel would serve its own interests well by being open to the establishment of a region-wide nuclear free zone, were such a zone to be implemented in a verifiable way.

The point is that Israel would be better off with a nuclear free Middle East than with a Middle East featuring many nuclear powers and that the odds of maintaining Israel's sole possession of a nuclear arsenal are poor over the long run.

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