JULY 9, 2011 Europeans pay tribute to a great American—and long for another. By PEGGY NOONAN What brilliant good it can do a country when the world respects, and will not forget, one of its leaders. What was vividly true 30 years ago is true today: The world looks to America. It doesn’t want to […]
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JULY 8, 2011 The dictators who came to power in the 1950s and ’60s were economic levelers who impoverished their countries. Today’s unrest is the result. By FOUAD AJAMI Mr. Ajami, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, is co-chairman of Hoover’s Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. The late great Austrian
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JULY 2, 2011 Twenty-Four Reported Dead in Broad Rallies as Lawlessness Is Said to Undercut Regime’s Legitimacy Associated Press An image captured by cellphone and transmitted by a group that tracks Syria news shows protesters in the northern Kfar Nebel village on Friday demanding the exit of Assad. DAMASCUS—Demonstrators across Syria pressed their demands for
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JUNE 14, 2011 Lebanon is a money-laundering haven for the region’s bad guys. By BRET STEPHENS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Following the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a U.N. investigation noted that “it very much seems that fraud, corruption, and money-laundering could also have been motives” in the murder. Hariri,
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JUNE 13, 2011 The mask of the Assad regime finally falls, and the world is forced to confront its illusions about Iran’s ally and Hezbollah’s patron. By FOUAD AJAMI Pity the Syrians as they face the Assad regime’s tanks and artillery and snipers. Unlike in Libya, there is no Arab or international “mandate” to protect
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MAY 13, 2011 Screams in Homs but forbearance around the world. Hearty salutations and reassurances from Damascus. After killing more than 600 (and counting) and arresting and injuring thousands more in a seven week crackdown, the Syrian regime wants you to know that it thinks it has the upper hand over protestors. And Bashar Assad
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner The Libyan Boomerang By Victor Davis Hanson Posted on April 27, 2011 5:13 PM In theory, Libya was supposed to save lives, use the military for humanitarianism rather than mere national interests, showcase a new multilateral internationalism, enhance the reputations of organizations like the U.N. and the Arab League,
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APRIL 26, 2011 Arab peoples aren’t obsessed with anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism. It’s their rulers who are. By JOSEF JOFFE Mr. Joffe is senior fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies and a fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford. In politics, shoddy theories never die. In the Middle East, one of the oldest
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APRIL 26, 2011 Notable & Quotable Writer Farid Ghadry on Assad’s brutality in Syria. Syrian writer Farid Ghadry on his blog, April 24: It is unconscionable to think that people are dropping like flies on Syrian streets, the injured are hiding in private homes to avoid capture or cold-blooded murder, the funeral procession are being
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APRIL 25, 2011 It is unlikely that the Gadhafis and Mubaraks could have entertained thoughts of succession for their sons had they not seen the ease with which Syria became an odd creature—a republican monarchy. By FOUAD AJAMI Mr. Ajami is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a senior
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