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SCOTT BROWN – IRAN AND PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 Want Middle East Peace? Deny Iran Nukes Israeli-Palestinian talks are good, but Tehran’s nuclear drive continues. By SCOTT BROWN Those of us who hope for peace in the Middle East applaud the meeting of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The fact that Palestinians finally agreed to direct […]

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KARL ROVE – THE WORLD NEEDS A DETERMINED UNITED STATES

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 Obama’s ‘Come Home America’ Speech A dangerous world needs stronger U.S. leadership. By KARL ROVE At times Tuesday night, it sounded as if President Barack Obama didn’t know what kind of speech he wanted to give. Was it a foreign policy address aimed at assuring a world-wide audience of America’s resolve in

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BOOK REVIEW – TONY BLAIR – A JOURNEY, MY POLITICAL LIFE

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 An Ally Remembers Defining ‘New Labour,’ defending the Iraq war, getting to know George W. Bush. By MARTIN RUBIN It is now painfully obvious that Tony Blair—the man who led Britain for a decade, who transformed the country’s dully orthodox Labour Party into dashing, moderate “New Labour,” who faced down parliamentary opponents

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SADDAM AND “THE BOYS””

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 If Saddam Had Stayed Saddam would have joined the nuclear bad-boys club with Iran and North Korea. By DANIEL HENNINGER From the vantage point of history, Barack Obama’s prime-time speech announcing the Iraq war’s end is less important than the speech he gave eight years ago as a state senator in Illinois.

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JOHN MCCAIN SPEAKS OUT ON OUR TWO WARS

AUGUST 31, 2010 The Surge and Afghanistan Unless he understands the reason for success in Iraq, the president is unlikely to lead a successful strategy against the Taliban. By JOHN MCCAIN Today President Obama will deliver a major speech to mark the draw down of U.S. forces in Iraq to 50,000 troops. He will likely

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HISTORY COULD OF BEEN CHANGED HAD WE TAKEN BAGHDAD IN 1990

AUGUST 23, 2010 The Guns of August, 1990 The last 20 years would have been very different had American forces taken that open road to Baghdad the first time around. By FOUAD AJAMI He struck in early August, 20 years ago, at a time when the Cold War had just ended, and the world was

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IRAQ – “OPERATION NEW DAWN”

AUGUST 20, 2010 Winning the Peace in Iraq The last American combat troops left Iraq this week. But when ‘Operation New Dawn’ begins on Sept. 1, the U.S. will still have a vital mission—and interests—there. By MAX BOOT The Stryker armored vehicles of the U.S. Army’s Fourth Brigade, Second Infantry Division have just rumbled out

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THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Aggression Outlawed! Magical thinking at the International Criminal Court. BY Jeremy Rabkin August 23, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 46 Last November, as a new round of bombings in Baghdad raised doubts about Iraqi security measures, the New York Times reported that hundreds of Iraqi checkpoints were relying on a

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