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PUTIN INVADES, OBAMA DISMANTLES

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  PUTIN INVADES, OBAMA DISMANTLES April 9, 2014 John Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that “Russian provocateurs” had infiltrated eastern Ukraine in order to foment “an illegal and illegitimate effort to destabilize a sovereign state and create a contrived crisis.” Also on Tuesday, the Pentagon announced steep

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THE NATIONAL SECURITY GENERATION GAP

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE NATIONAL SECURITY GENERATION GAP By Stephen Peter Rosen  Mr. Rosen is a professor of national security and military affairs at Harvard. Young Americans have become skeptical about the use of U.S. power abroad.   March 31, 2014 With Russia’s invasion of Crimea, Syria’s civil war growing into a regional

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THE DISSING OF THE PRESIDENT

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE DISSING OF THE PRESIDENT The world is treating Obama like another failed American Leader by Bret Stephens April 1, 2014 I’ve never liked the word diss—not as a verb, much less as a noun. But watching the Obama administration get the diss treatment the world over, week-in, week-out, I’m

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THE PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN POLICY PARADOX

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN POLICY PARADOX By Walter Russell Mead Mr. Mead is a professor of foreign affairs and humanities at Bard College and editor at large of the American Interest. March 29, 2014 More than five years into his presidency, Barack Obama still wrestles with the foreign-policy contradiction that has dogged

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SUPERPOWER ONCE LIVED HERE

  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Superpower Once Lived Here William Kristol March 31 – April 7, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 28 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  It’s been a bit bewildering, even disorienting, to watch Obama get mugged by reality and refuse to press charges. But of course he doesn’t want to press charges.

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PUTIN’S CHALLENGE TO THE WEST

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  PUTIN’S CHALLENGE TO THE WEST By Robert M. Gates  Mr. Gates served as secretary of defense under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from 2006-11, and as director of central intelligence under President George H.W. Bush from 1991-93.  March 26, 2014  Russian President Vladimir Putin has a long-festering grudge:

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NATO’S MILITARY DECLINE

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  NATO’S MILITARY DECLINE  March 25, 2014  Vladimir Putin and his American apologists like to blame NATO’s post-Cold War expansion for his territorial conquests, which ignores that the alliance refused in 2008 to let Georgia and Ukraine even begin the process of joining. Those are the two countries the Russian has

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