MARCH 27, 2011 Defense Secretary Gates says Iran isn’t winning in the Middle East and explains why he regrets a much-quoted line in his recent speech at West Point. By BRET STEPHENS Aboard the National Airborne Operations Center Robert Gates is a compact and unassuming man, but a U.S. secretary of defense does not travel […]
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CANADA FREE PRESS We owe Pete King a debt of gratitude for defying those who would have shut his hearings down The King Hearings were Taboo-Busters By Frank Gaffney Jr. Tuesday, March 15, 2011It is not everyday that Congress breaks a major taboo and, in so doing, performs a real service to the nation. Last Thursday,
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MARCH 26, 2011 The regime has killed more than 100 people, but protesters press on. By AHED AL HENDI A few days ago, my friend Hussam Melhim, a Syrian blogger jailed for writing a poem criticizing Bashar al-Assad, was released after five years in prison. I too was jailed by Assad’s regime. After 40 days
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MARCH 26, 2011 By FARNAZ FASSIHI And JAY SOLOMON WSJ’s Farnaz Fassihi reports a crowd of 50,000 protesters was fired upon by Syrian troops as they marched to Danaa. Also, Sam Dagher has the latest from Libya as NATO takes over No-Fly Zone patrols. Thousands of protesters demanding political liberalization marched in cities across Syria
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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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IBD Editorials By CHUCK DEVORE • DeVore served in the California Legislature from 2004 to 2010. He is a lieutenant colonel (retired) in the U.S. Army Reserve and served as a special assistant for foreign affairs in the Reagan-era Pentagon. He studied abroad at the American University in Cairo in 1984-85. 03/24/2011First in a series
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NEW YORK TIMES March 24, 2011 By MICHAEL SLACKMAN CAIRO — In post-revolutionary Egypt, where hope and confusion collide in the daily struggle to build a new nation, religion has emerged as a powerful political force, following an uprising that was based on secular ideals. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group once banned by the
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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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DAILY MAIL By Daily Mail Reporter 23rd March 2011 Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated French propose a new political ‘committee’ to oversee operations Germany pulls equipment out of NATO coalition over disagreement over campaign’s direction Italians accuse French of backing NATO in exchange for oil contracts
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