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THE PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN POLICY PARADOX

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN POLICY PARADOX By Walter Russell Mead Mr. Mead is a professor of foreign affairs and humanities at Bard College and editor at large of the American Interest. March 29, 2014 More than five years into his presidency, Barack Obama still wrestles with the foreign-policy contradiction that has dogged

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PUTIN’S CHALLENGE TO THE WEST

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  PUTIN’S CHALLENGE TO THE WEST By Robert M. Gates  Mr. Gates served as secretary of defense under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from 2006-11, and as director of central intelligence under President George H.W. Bush from 1991-93.  March 26, 2014  Russian President Vladimir Putin has a long-festering grudge:

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MUSLIMS OUTNUMBER CATHOLICS IN VIENNA SCHOOLS

:   Austria: Muslims Outnumber Catholics in Vienna Schools by Soeren Kern March 26, 2014 at 5:00 am http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4229/austria-muslims-vienna-schools       Austria is also in the process of introducing new taxpayer-funded textbooks for the formal teaching if Islam in all public elementary schools across the country…. This is the first time Islam is being

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NATO’S MILITARY DECLINE

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  NATO’S MILITARY DECLINE  March 25, 2014  Vladimir Putin and his American apologists like to blame NATO’s post-Cold War expansion for his territorial conquests, which ignores that the alliance refused in 2008 to let Georgia and Ukraine even begin the process of joining. Those are the two countries the Russian has

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DEFENSE OF OBAMA’S UKRAINE BLUNDER AND COLD WAR REVISIONISM

  REDSTATE.COM Cold War Revisionism and the Defense of Obama’s Ukraine Blunder By: streiff (Diary)  |  March 14th, 2014  There is an op-ed in the Washington Post by Mark Kramer, director of the Project on Cold War Studies at Harvard University, making the rounds today titled Five myths about the Cold War.  Like so many

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UKRAINE AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REVIEW & OUTLOOK UKRAINE AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION March 19, 2014 The damage to world order from Vladimir Putin‘s invasion of Crimea will echo for years, but one of the biggest casualties deserves more attention: the cause of nuclear nonproliferation. One lesson to the world of Russia’s cost-free carve-up of Ukraine

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WINTER IN UKRAINE, SPRING BREAK FOR OBAMA

  THE WASHINGTON POST It’s winter in Ukraine, but it’s spring break for Obama By Marc A. Thiessen, March 10, 2014 The Pentagon may be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars studying Vladimir Putin’s body language in order to “better predict [his] actions,” but Putin does not need a study to read President Obama’s body

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KRAUTHAMMER – HOW TO STOP OR SLOW PUTIN

  THE WASHINGTON POST How to stop — or slow — Putin By Charles Krauthammer, March 14, 2014 The president of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council challenges critics of President Obama’s Ukraine policy by saying, “What are you going to do, send the 101st Airborne into Crimea?” Not exactly subtle. And rather silly, considering

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DEAR VLADIMIR: CONGRATULATIONS. YOU READ MY BOOK

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL          DEAR VLADIMIR:  CONGRATULATIONS.   YOU READ MY BOOK By Josef Joffe Mr. Joffe is editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg and a fellow of the Freeman-Spogli Institute and the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University. His latest book is “The Myth of America’s Decline” (Liveright, 2013). March 6, 2014 Niccolò Machiavelli,

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