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President Obama: Keep Your Nerve on Syria

From On May 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Robert E. Hunter

“Then we’ll have done all we can.”

“Very heartless.”

“It’s safer to be heartless than mindless. History is the triumph of the heartless over the mindless.”

                     Yes, [...]

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Major US Newspapers Criticize Obama’s Approach to Syrian Crisis

From On October 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The New York Times reports that despite US reluctance to arm Islamist actors in Syria, that’s happening as the US does little to vet the actions of its partners Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Though the amount of aid flowing to the badly-equipped rebels is still relatively small as other on-the-ground [...]

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A Walmart for Libya

From On September 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Last Sunday former President Bill Clinton asked the CEO of Walmart if he would open a store in Libya.

Surely Libya needs more jobs and needs to get its economy going, but I am not sure how a Walmart would do that. A large proportion of the goods that [...]

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Radical Salafis Overrunning the Syrian Revolution

From On August 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The recent visit by Abd al-Halim Murad, head of the Bahraini Salafi al-Asalah movement, to Syria to meet with Syrian rebels is an attempt by him and other Gulf Salafis to hijack the Syrian revolution.

Sadly, the Saudi and Bahraini governments have looked the other way as their Sunni Salafis [...]

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How the US might Begin to Rethink Egypt

From On August 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The economy is clearly the most important problem facing Egypt today. Unemployment and underemployment are vast. Tourism has been shattered by recent events and may take a long time to get back on track. Foreign investments have dropped and have even turned to a net outflow from the country rather than [...]

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Expert Q&A: US Should Encourage NATO/Turkey-led Assistance to Syrian Opposition Forces

From On August 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Emile Nakhleh is a retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer, a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico and a National Intelligence Council associate. Since retiring from the United States Government in 2006, he has been consulting with different US government entities and departments on national security issues, particularly Islamic radicalization, [...]

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