AUGUST 1, 2011 His lack of faith in American exceptionalism has dashed any hope of a ‘transformational’ presidency. By FOUAD AJAMI In one of the illuminating, unscripted moments of the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama said—much to the dismay of his core constituency—that the Reagan presidency had been “transformational” in a way that Bill Clinton’s […]
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latimes.com Egyptian ‘unity’ rally highlights split within nation The protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, meant to show unity among secularist and Islamist parties in the call for reforms, instead displayed the power of the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded groups. ‘The people want an Islamic state,’ tens of thousands Islamists chant while outnumbered secular demonstrators watch
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While the U.S. is mired in a budget crisis, let us refresh our memories on one of the many ways we have spent our way into this crisis! i
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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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JUNE 30, 2011 Worst Violence Since Mubarak’s Ouster Leaves 1,000 Injured, Raises Doubts Over Pre-Election Security By MATT BRADLEY ReutersSmoke billows from a burning police booth as protesters clashed in front of interior ministry headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday. CAIRO—The Egyptian military intervened Wednesday afternoon to quell the biggest riots since the country’s former president
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US NEWS America’s Fading Exceptionalism Only serious leadership on immigration, the national debt, and unemployment will make America great once again By Mortimer B. Zuckerman Posted: June 10, 2011 Our 21st century does not seem to be on course to be described as the “American century,” the title indubitably merited for the 20th century. For
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May 24, 2011 Obama’s Hostility to Israel Continues By Ed Koch Not since 1973 and the Yom Kippur War when Egypt and Syria – with logistical help from other Arab countries — joined forces in an attempt to crush Israel has the survival of Israel been in question. Today, however, Israel is in danger. In
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NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS Yasmine El Rashidi AFP/Getty Images Egyptian Coptic Christians demonstrate outside the state radio and television building in central Cairo on March 8, 2011 On a recent afternoon this month, in a busy downtown Cairo street, armed men exchanged gunfire, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails, and freely wielded knives in broad daylight.
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May 17, 2011 By Caroline Glick It is hard to believe, but it appears that in the wake of the Palestinian unity deal that brings Hamas, the genocidal, al-Qaida-aligned, local franchise of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, into a partnership with Fatah, US President Barack Obama has decided to open a new round of pressure on
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Sandstorms Barack Obama and the Great Arab Revolt. Reuel Marc Gerecht May 9, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 32 We may never know whether the conjecture of the historian Fouad Ajami is correct: that President Barack Obama sought the approval of the Arab League for the air war against Muammar
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