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Redrawing the Middle East After Assad
NY Times | Thomas Friedman Without a strong, galvanizing Syrian leader with a compelling unifying vision, backed by the international community, getting rid of Assad will not bring order to Syria. And disorder in Syria will not have the same … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Affairs
Tagged Bashar al-Assad, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, Syria, Syrian civil war, Syrian revolution
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Iran and the Nuke
Instead of writing a threat assessment that would require hundreds of words and repeating what has already been written by others, here is a threat tree I put together as a visual reference of possible outcomes. Like if you a … Continue reading
History Suggests U.S. Should Stay Out of Syria
History Shows U.S. Intervention in Syria Is a Mistake Western interests have created today’s Middle East and its seemingly intractable problems. The attempt to “civilize” and channel the people who have lived there for thousands of years is futile, as … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Foreign Policy
Tagged Bashar al-Assad, Middle East, Syria, Syrian protests, Syrian rebels, US intervention, Western world
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Realism Moving Forward
THERE WILL BE A TIME when America will have to rethink its foreign policy. Perhaps that time is already upon us as our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw to a close. The Middle East has shown, beyond our best … Continue reading
Egypt Hearts Iran and Nuclear Weapons
From Josh Rogin from The Cable A poll of Egyptians conducted last month shows that they have increasingly positive views of Iran, believe that both Iran and Egypt should obtain nuclear weapons, and still trust their own military more than … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Affairs
Tagged Egypt, Egyptians, Iran's nuclear program, Israel, Israel Project, Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood
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Romney Can Bring Foreign Policy Into Debate
To be sure the economy is the number one issue among Americans. And rightly so, but Americans on a bipartisan basis traditionally love strong leadership and covet their place in the world as the "indispensable nation." President W. Bush in … Continue reading
Is Democracy As Much To Blame As Islam In The Mid East?
Why do Muslims willingly turn from modernity? To find our answer, we must put away the ideal and look upon the Middle East as it actually is. The Middle East is not a mystery. Its polity and society is as … Continue reading
Manufactured Effrontery and Violence in the Middle East
If you need further evidence which demonstrates the gulf that lies between contemporary Middle Eastern and Western thought than you need look no further than a comment made by a 22-year-old “religious student” in the ME to a Daily Beast correspondent. … Continue reading
Libyan Officials Apprehend Four Suspects in the Benghazi Attacks.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Libyan officials have apprehended four people allegedly connected with the killing of four Americans, including the US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. BENGHAZI—Four people have been arrested in connection with the attack against the American consulate … Continue reading
What Is Our Syrian Policy?
Unofficially, the US is supporting the Syrian rebels. To what degree we don’t know. Until the US decides to officially throw its weight behind the Syrian rebels against Assad, there is very little legally or diplomatically that can be done. … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Foreign Policy
Tagged Bashar al-Assad, Damascus, Iran, Middle East, Syria, Syrian civil war, Syrian rebels, Tehran
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US Top Supplier of Military Arms in World
Not only are we the greatest supplier of military arms to the rest of the world and have been for several years, the US actually tripled its sales in 2011 to a staggering total of $66 billion. According to the … Continue reading
Is There A Case For Aiding Syrian Rebels? – Continued
My earlier post on possible US military intervention in Syria was a summation of Michael Tottens analysis for his support of intervention to aid the Syrian rebels. Totten made several plausible points backed by research and years of knowledge on … Continue reading
Is There A Case For Aiding Syrian Rebels?
Michael Totten at World Affairs thinks so. Totten’s laundry list for reasons why is long and correct. And strategically he makes a case. Assad has continued his father’s legacy of running a ruthless regime, supporting terrorism, disrupting the peace process … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy
Tagged Bashar al-Assad, Egypt, Iran, Iran-Syrian relations, Libya, Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood, Syria, Syrian rebellion, Syrian rebels
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Henry Kissinger Argues Against Syrian Intervention
It simply boils down to national interests and strategic ends. And remember, there is the 22 member Arab League of which Syria’s chaos and violence is in its own backyard. Here is an excerpt from the Washington Post. This form … Continue reading
