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RALPH PETERS – REMARKS FROM AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS WINDSURFER RE EGYPT

  This blood is on the hands of Muslim Brotherhood By RALPH PETERS  August 15, 2013 What do we want the future Egypt to look like? A flawed, hybrid democracy, or a Sunni Muslim version of Iran? Based on his bluster yesterday about events on the Nile, Secretary of State John Kerry prefers the latter.

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KRAUTHAMMER – OBAMA’S WAR OF WORDS

    KRAUTHAMMER: Obama’s absurd war of words Sentinel & Enterprise Sentinel & Enterprise August 10, 2013 Posted: August 10, 2013 SentinelAndEnterprise.com WASHINGTON — Jen Psaki, blameless State Department spokeswoman, explained that the hasty evacuation of our embassy in Yemen was not an evacuation but “a reduction in staff.” This proved a problem because the

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HOW AL QAEDA MADE ITS COMEBACK

  August 7, 2013 Ali Soufan: How Al Qaeda Made Its Comeback The U.S. regarded the terrorist group’s affiliates as local problems—instead of fighting their potent Islamist ideology. By ALI SOUFAN Mr. Soufan, an FBI supervisory special agent from 1997 to 2005, is chairman of the Soufan Group, a strategic intelligence consultancy. He is the

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ARM THE ENEMY? RUN FROM THE ENEMY? WHY NOT DO BOTH?

    NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE          www.nationalreview.com      August 5, 2013   Arm the Enemy? Run from the Enemy? Why Not Both? By  David French  It’s tough to imagine a more humiliating week for the world’s sole superpower. Fears of “another Benghazi” are prompting not massive reinforcement to defend our citizens and our diplomatic soil but closure and retreat

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SHALE THREATENS SAUDI ECONOMY

  MIDDLE EAST NEWS  July 29, 2013, Shale Threatens Saudi Economy, Warns Prince Alwaleed Investor Says Kingdom’s Economy Increasingly Vulnerable r By SUMMER SAID and BENOÎT FAUCON Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has warned that the kingdom’s oil-dependent economy is increasingly vulnerable to rising U.S. energy production, breaking ranks with oil officials in Riyadh

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THE BORING PALESTINIANS

  July 16, 2013 The Boring Palestinians If this were a TV drama, it would be ‘The X-Files’ in its 46th season. By BRET STEPHENS– EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  And yet for all its presumed importance, the Palestinian saga has gotten awfully boring, hasn’t it? The grievances that remain unchanged, a cast of characters that

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