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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The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Libya and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea
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May 11, 2011 By Desmond Lachman The European sovereign debt crisis is now entering a critical phase, which U.S. economic policymakers would be ignoring at their peril. For this crisis has the real potential for delivering the severest of body blows to an already enfeebled European banking system. And if there is one thing that
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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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By Philip Stephens Financial Times April 14 2011 America’s GIs are waving goodbye. Good Europeans should cheer them on their way. More than two decades have passed since the end of the cold war. You do not have to be French (or Russian) to agree it’s time for the Yanks to
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner By Victor Davis Hanson Posted on April 08, 2011 1:10 PM At some point, the Obama administration is going to recognize a simple paradox that has been apparent to almost everyone but them: In theory, those pro-American autocratic regimes that are tottering or gone (the Gulf States, Jordan, Egypt,
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APRIL 8, 2011 France Resurrects Border With Italy By STACY MEICHTRY VENTIMIGLIA, Italy—The migration wave unleashed by North African unrest has prompted France to resurrect its border with Italy—a barrier that was supposedly consigned to history’s dustbin with Europe’s unified economy. France is trying to stem a wave of North African migrants from entering through
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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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Charles Krauthammer: The professor’s war By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER 2011-03-24 President Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing. A Security Council resolution. (Everything but a resolution from the Congress of the United States, a minor inconvenience for a citizen of
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MARCH 25, 2011 The Speech Obama Hasn’t Given What are we doing in Libya? Americans deserve an explanation. By PEGGY NOONAN It all seems rather mad, doesn’t it? The decision to become involved militarily in the Libyan civil war couldn’t take place within a less hospitable context. The U.S. is reeling from spending and deficits,
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