APRIL 7, 2011 Up to 200 Refugees Missing in Cold Waters, 15 Found Dead; Europe Struggles With Influx From Turbulent North Africa By STACY MEICHTRY ROME—Italian authorities were losing hope of rescuing more than 200 migrants who remained lost at sea on Wednesday after a boat that had been ferrying them from Libya to Italy […]
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APRIL 4, 2011 Why lend legitimacy to the Castro brothers? By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY They say that Cuba is a place where time stands still and it certainly seemed that way last week when Jimmy Carter arrived in Havana to fraternize with the Castros. The image of the 86-year-old American ex-president wearing a wide smile
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APRIL 2, 2011 ‘The Tyrannies Are Doomed’ The West’s leading scholar of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis, sees cause for optimism in the limited-government traditions of Arab and Muslim culture. But he says the U.S. should not push for quick, Western-style elections. By BARI WEISS Princeton, N.J. ‘What Went Wrong?” That was the explosive title
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MARCH 31, 2011 Obama Bungles the Libya Speech The president seems irresolute and unreliable, even when doing the right thing. By KARL ROVE Wars, even good ones, require worthy explanation and justification. Both were missing in President Obama’s address to the nation on Monday night. While the president’s speech on Libya was adequate at times,
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com By Victor Davis Hanson March 28, 2011 President Obama just gave a weird speech. Part George W. Bush, part trademark Obama — filled with his characteristic split-the-difference, straw-man (“some say, others say”), false-choice tropes. His support for those “yearning for freedom all around the world” was the sort of interventionist foreign policy
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MARCH 27, 2011 Defense Secretary Gates says Iran isn’t winning in the Middle East and explains why he regrets a much-quoted line in his recent speech at West Point. By BRET STEPHENS Aboard the National Airborne Operations Center Robert Gates is a compact and unassuming man, but a U.S. secretary of defense does not travel
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MARCH 26, 2011 The regime has killed more than 100 people, but protesters press on. By AHED AL HENDI A few days ago, my friend Hussam Melhim, a Syrian blogger jailed for writing a poem criticizing Bashar al-Assad, was released after five years in prison. I too was jailed by Assad’s regime. After 40 days
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MARCH 26, 2011 By FARNAZ FASSIHI And JAY SOLOMON WSJ’s Farnaz Fassihi reports a crowd of 50,000 protesters was fired upon by Syrian troops as they marched to Danaa. Also, Sam Dagher has the latest from Libya as NATO takes over No-Fly Zone patrols. Thousands of protesters demanding political liberalization marched in cities across Syria
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