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 02 2011
Stop blaming Israel for every grievance in the Middle East By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 2 May 2011 … First came the Arab spring (followed, in some lands, by the harshest of winters) and now Hamas and Fatah have signed a deal for unity. Naturally, Israel is as panicked as are Arab despots by the shifts …
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May 01 2011
Daily Mail Launches Weird Attack On Obama’s Father By Jason Linkins, 04/29/11 11:40 AM ET … Here’s a clever thing the the U.K.’s Daily Mail did in response to the release of President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate: a brief little item on how Obama’s father was a “slippery character.” Says the Daily Mail, “With …
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Apr 30 2011
It’s official. We know now that there is nothing that will ever appease the nutters who desperately hate our President. Frenzied conspiracy theories have always thrived in the fertile imaginations of America’s fringy shadowlands, those dark, squishy places just beyond the edge of sanity. But in this topsy-turvy silly season, with abject nonsense cropping up all around …
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Apr 25 2011
Guantánamo piled lie upon lie through the momentum of its own existence By Julian Glover, Monday 25 April 2011 … Let them read the documents. Let them try to tell us after that (as some still do, even now) that the Afghan war was fought well, and fought morally; that Guantánamo was a limited and …
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Apr 25 2011
Rebellion: Smashing stereotypes of Arab women By Soumaya Ghannoushi, 25 Apr 2011 13:28 … The Arab revolutions are not only shaking the structure of tyranny to the core – they are shattering many of the myths about the Arab region that have been accumulating for decades. Topping the list of dominant myths are those of …
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Apr 25 2011
What the Guantanamo leaks won’t reveal By Darryl Li, 25 Apr 2011 19:28 … In the coming days, many will pore over the Guantánamo files released by Wikileaks to find startling revelations or to justify pre-existing positions. But before diving in, it may help to reflect on a few things that may not be explicit …
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