Arab Winter

THE UNMAKING OF THE MIDDLE EAST

    After reading this article, especially the last two paragraphs, you will probably feel as I do that the situation in the Middle East is spinning out of control and whatever leverage we once had is gone.  HOWEVER, what  impact will there be on events in  the Middle East once it becomes clearer that America is […]

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PRYING OPEN THE BENGHAZI FILES

  THE WASHINGTON TIMES PRYING OPEN THE BENGHAZI FILES By James A. Lyons James A. Lyons, U.S. Navy retired admiral, was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations. Thursday, January 16, 2014 Reports released recently by both the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee and the House

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KNOW YOUR ENEMY – AL QAEDA’S GRAND STRATEGY

  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Know Your Enemy Al Qaeda’s grand strategy Thomas Joscelyn Thomas Joscelyn is senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. January 20, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 18 In the summer of 2008, Barack Obama, senator and presidential candidate, toured the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama

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HAUNTED BY SYRIA ?

  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Haunted by Syria? President Obama is unmoved by the atrocities on his watch Elliott Abrams Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. January 13, 2014, Vol.

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IRAN & OBAMA, THE USE AND ABUSE OF SANCTIONS

  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Use and Abuse of Sanctions The Iranian bomb is all that matters. Lee Smith   Lee Smith is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard December 9, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 13 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  The administration, as we learned last week, had been engaged in secret

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WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLES

  http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304465604579222110598111076?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories –  _0bama Administration Proposes New Curbs on Campaigning by tax exempt groups   http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304439804579208020624280740?mod=ITP_opinion_  –  How The GOP Should Fix Obamacare http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303531204579204212758620396?mod=ITP_opinion_0  –  A Federal Anti-Education Plan http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304791704579212422022570980?mod=ITP_opinion_0  – The GOP’s Health-Reform Opportunity http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303376904579136052828867002?mod=ITP_opinion_0  –  Janet Yellen’s Greatest Challenge http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303985504579206210388287976?mod=ITP_opinion_0  –  Scott Walker – How to Win the Obama-Walker Voters http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304439804579208262999418146?mod=ITP_opinion_2  –  The Spy Who

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BEHIND THE SAUDI-U.S. BREAKUP

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BEHIND THE SAUDI-U.S. BREAKUP Karen Elliott House Ms. House, a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal who won a Pulitzer Prize as a reporter for her coverage of the Middle East, is the author of “On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future” ( Knopf, 2012). Oct. 25,

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IRAQ TIPS TOWARD THE ABYSS

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Iraq Tips Toward the Abyss So far this year, some 7,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, but Americans don’t seem to have noticed. By Bret Stephens  Oct. 22, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  By doing so little to stop the spiraling chaos in Iraq and Syria, the administration isn’t keeping

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