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Obama on racial matters: 'Door still open'
The SwampPresident Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan and travelling through Ghana today, was asked what Africa means to him - "Is it half of you?'' "Well, no, I don't think it would be fair to say it was half,''......Tags: Armed Forces, Social Issues, Barack Obama, The Holocaust (1934-1945), New York
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Global war, no, failed states, yes
The Swampby Mark Silva There is no "global war on terrorism.'' That's the first thing that Anthony Cordesman, a seasoned expert on national security, has to say about the failed Christmas Day bomb-attempt on a U.S.-bound airliner. Inasmuch as we've had......Tags: Armed Forces, Wars and Interventions, Population, Turkey, National Security
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While Syria burns, Obama stands idly by
WASHINGTON — Last year President Barack Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of "Responsibility to Protect." Moammar Gadhafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing "would have been a...
Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, Wars and Interventions, Bashar Assad, Serbia, Turkey
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McManus: A deal with the Khartoum devil?
How do you deal with a genocidal dictator who says he wants to reform? For more than a decade, Sudan has been the quintessential pariah state. Its armed forces carried out a campaign of genocide in Darfur, killing more than 300,000; its president, Omar...Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, Armed Forces, Wars and Interventions, Egypt, Economic Sanctions
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McManus: A ticking clock on Syria
The interventionist liberals of the Obama administration were a doleful bunch last week. It was the 20th anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo, when a Bosnian Serb army battered a city full of civilians with artillery while the United States issued...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Bashar Assad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, International Military Interventions, Free Syrian Army
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Decline or decadence?
Victor Davis HansonAlmost daily we read of America's "waning power" and "inevitable decline," as observers argue over the consequences of defense cuts and budget crises. Yet much of the new American "leading from behind" strategy is a matter of choice, not necessity....Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, U.S. Military, Wars and Interventions, Bankruptcy, Science and Technology
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Rachel Marsden: Romney's Russia remarks and the dangers of dumbed down
American VoicesLast week, Mitt Romney described Russia as America's "No. 1 geopolitical foe," prompting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to respond: "I think it's somewhat dated to be looking backwards instead of being realistic about where we agree, where we don't...Tags: Bashar Assad, Politics, Joe Biden, Nobel Prize Awards, United Nations
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Wars and potential wars abound
William PfaffPARIS -- The two most recent American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed or are disastrously failing. The United States is being pressed to launch two new wars. There is little public support for any of the four. The government of Israel, the...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Culture, Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Equipment, John McCain
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Joel Brinkley:The screws tighten on Syria's Assad
American VoicesSitting in his sumptuous palace, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can almost certainly hear the drip, drip, drip, like a leaky faucet, of his life dribbling away. The world is finally closing in on him, and he realizes that to remain alive, or at least a...Tags: Wars and Interventions, The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Bashar Assad, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Rachel Marsden: Russia re-Putined
American VoicesSo Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has just been re-presidented for at least another six years, during which we can all watch his newly tucked eyes migrate back to where they used to be. And as surely as a pound dog comes with fleas, this election...Tags: Bashar Assad, Health, Schizophrenia, Vladimir Putin, Russia
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Sick and tired of the Middle East
Victor Davis HansonAmericans -- left, right, Democrats and Republicans -- are all sick of thankless nation-building in the Middle East. Yet democratization was not our first choice, but rather a last resort after prior failures. The United States had long ago supplied...Tags: Bashar Assad, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Hosni Mubarak, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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A U.N. -- but for good guys
Jonah GoldbergThe governments in Russia and China very much want to uphold the principle that every now and then the state must crush people who want freedom. That is why they worked together to veto a fairly toothless United Nations resolution condemning the regime in...Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, Politics, David Cameron, United Nations
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