A Decade After 9/11 by Ilario Pantano, author of Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy Thank you to the families, including my own. ‘Is this as close to victory as we are ever going to get?” I wondered aloud as I absorbed the headlines. I’ve been struggling with that question, and perhaps you have
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APRIL 26, 2011 Arab peoples aren’t obsessed with anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism. It’s their rulers who are. By JOSEF JOFFE Mr. Joffe is senior fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies and a fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford. In politics, shoddy theories never die. In the Middle East, one of the oldest
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APRIL 25, 2011 It is unlikely that the Gadhafis and Mubaraks could have entertained thoughts of succession for their sons had they not seen the ease with which Syria became an odd creature—a republican monarchy. By FOUAD AJAMI Mr. Ajami is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a senior
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THE WASHINGTON POST By Editorial, Friday, April 22, 5:16 PM FOR THE PAST five weeks, growing numbers of Syrians have been gathering in cities and towns across the country to demand political freedom — and the security forces of dictator Bashar al-Assad have been responding by opening fire on them. According to Syrian human rights groups, more
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MIDDLE EAST NEWS APRIL 23, 2011 By MATT BRADLEY, MARC CHAMPION, MARGARET COKER, SAM DAGHER, JOE PARKINSON, BILL SPINDLE and ERIK STIER Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesAn Egyptian protester waved his national flag as tens of thousands gathered for a demonstration at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on April 8, 2011. SIDI BOU ZID, Tunisia—Ali Bouazizi, who owns a
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HUMANEVENTS.COM Obama Is Taking Care of Business by John Hayward (more by this author) Posted 04/21/2011 ET Updated 04/21/2011 ET Reuters has a report today that says “Moammar Qaddafi has consolidated his position in central and western Libya enough to maintain an indefinite standoff with rebels trying to end his four-decade rule,” according to U.S. and European
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stand With Iraq Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Baghdad last week on what was probably his last official trip to the country he helped save from devastating sectarian war. His visit was hardly a victory
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APRIL 16, 2011 Terrorist thugs cannot be confused with freedom fighters. Political naivete is not a crime, at least not in the West. But Italian Vittorio Arrigoni, a 36-year-old pro-Palestinian activist, was not in the West when he was kidnapped by an al Qaeda offshoot and strangled to death with a plastic cord. He was
APRIL 16, 2011 John Watson, Chevron’s CEO, says Americans must stop taking affordable energy for granted. That means more ‘oil, gas and coal.’ By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL San Ramon, Calif. It’s the day after President Obama delivered his most recent vision of America’s energy future, and I’m sitting in the sunny corporate offices of Chevron,
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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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