May 13 2011
Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants? By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 14 May 2011 … Christopher Hill, a former US secretary of state for east Asia who was ambassador to Iraq – and usually a very obedient and un-eloquent American diplomat – wrote the other day that “the notion that a dictator can claim the …
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May 08 2011
The following is from LIFE Magazine, September 17, 1951, beginning on page 91: http://books.google.com/books?id=tE4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA91 or http://tinyurl.com/6asyoto And then there is this bit of brave reporting on page 37, from September 29, 1958: http://books.google.com/books?id=aVMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA37 or http://tinyurl.com/3pprgz8
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May 07 2011
Face That Screamed War’s Pain Looks Back, 6 Hard Years Later By Tim Arango, May 7, 2011 … MOSUL, Iraq — Until the past week, Samar Hassan had never glimpsed the photograph of her that millions had seen, never knew it had become one of the most famous images of the Iraq war. “My brother was …
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May 07 2011
Truth and reconciliation? It won’t happen in Syria By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 7 May 2011 … If you want to understand the cruel tragedy of Syria, there are two books you must read: Nikolaos van Dam’s The Struggle for Power in Syria and, of course, Patrick Seale’s biography Assad. Van Dam was an ambassador in …
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May 07 2011
The real meaning of Bin Laden’s death By Johann Hari, Friday, 6 May 2011 … Scramble the film backwards. Rewind. Go back to the day 10 years ago when the air here in Manhattan was thick with ash and Osama bin Laden was gloating. There were two options for the US government – to pick …
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May 07 2011
Good advice. Been there; done that (1957). Seemed like a good idea at the time, according to Eisenhower and two good old Presbyterian Princetonians named Dulles. Bad idea, however. We don’t do intervention very well. Result: more harm than good! Still paying the price! Ray Leave Syria to the Syrians By Charles Glass, May 02, 2011 … This is not a good time to be running …
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May 05 2011
…and presidential priorities. Note: Amir Taheri is a contributing editor for FamilySecurityMatters.org and writes for the NY Post and the Wall Street Journal (detect a slight, right-ward slant here?). His latest book is The Persian Night: Iran Under the Khomeinist Revolution. His New York Times article below, declaring the death of Osama bin Laden, was …
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