June 20, 2012 Fouad Ajami: America, Russia and the Tragedy of Syria On a recent visit to Syrian refugee camps in Turkey, ordinary Syrians asked me why the U.S. is not more concerned with their fate. By FOUAD AJAMI The ordeal of Syria has been a rebuttal of what the diplomacy of Barack Obama once […]
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June 19, 2012 A Leaderless World Signs of disorder grow as American influence recedes. Not so long ago much of the world griped about an America that was too assertive, a “hyperpower” that attempted to lead with too little deference to the desires of those attending the G-20 meeting today in Mexico. Well, congratulations. A
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June 16, 2012 They seem designed to glorify President Obama and help his re-election campaign. By PEGGY NOONAN What is happening with all these breaches of our national security? Why are intelligence professionals talking so much—divulging secret and sensitive information for all the world to see, and for our adversaries to contemplate? In the past
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Impotence Abroad Lee Smith June 11, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 37 Hillary Clinton says that the Obama administration can’t do anything about Bashar al-Assad. They can’t make him step down, and they can’t stop him from massacring women and children, as he did last week in Houla. “The Syrians
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Bride of Stuxnet Webcraft as spycraft. Jonathan V. Last June 11, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 37 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: But once Flame was running, it was like something out of science fiction. Flame could watch a target even when he was completely alone. It could listen to every
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Reuel Marc Gerecht May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33 Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold Macmillan, shot to pieces in World War I,
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Waiting for the U.N. The Obama administration embraces international paralysis. John Yoo April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: ….the United States did not just advance its own interests, it also benefited global welfare by containing the spread of communism and ending human rights catastrophes.
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May 18, 2012 We do not get to choose if a freedom revolution should begin or end in the Middle East or elsewhere. We only get to choose what side we are on. By GEORGE W. BUSH These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom. In the Arab Spring, we have seen the broadest
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News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Fri, May 11, 2012 Israel is ready to stop Iran By Charles Krauthammer In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a
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May 1, 2012 The American people may demand more than the killing of bin Laden and the hunting down of Somali pirates. By FOUAD AJAMI In a speech at New York University last week, Vice President Joe Biden laid out the case for the Democratic ticket’s re-election: “Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors
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