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Lebanon, Syria forge formal ties
The Swampby Liz Sly BEIRUT -- Lebanon and Syria formally established diplomatic relations Wednesday for the first time since they won their independence in the 1940s, a historic move that was overshadowed by a bombing in the northern Lebanese port city......Tags: Government, Diplomacy, National Government, Peace Negotiations, Condoleezza Rice
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Three mistakes Obama has made in Syrian crisis
Syria's dictator, Bashar al-Assad, isn't the only leader who is crossing "red lines" these days. U.S. President Barack Obama has also crossed a few. Here are three of them: 1. He crossed a red line by asserting the existence of a red line that he then...
Tags: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, David Cameron, White House, Iran
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The president's walk-back: A pink line over Damascus?
WASHINGTON - You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to The New...
Tags: Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), Religious Conflicts, Barack Obama, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Benjamin Netanyahu
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That's the Middle East -- and the West, too
Paul GreenbergThe bloody war-by-proxy continues in Syria. It pits the embattled, increasingly desperate but still determined and far from defeated dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad against a disorganized amalgam of rebels, aka the Free Syrian Army. Each has its own array...Tags: Benghazi, Free Syrian Army, Nazi Party, Taiwan, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Pink line over Damascus
WASHINGTON -- You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to The New...
Tags: Barack Obama, Religious Conflicts, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), Biological and Chemical Weapons, Benjamin Netanyahu
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Hoping for change in Syria
Victor Davis HansonRemember when President Obama used to warn Syria's Bashar al-Assad to stop his mass killing and step down? Muammar Gadhafi's dictatorship had then just collapsed under Western bombing. The murders of Americans in Benghazi and the subsequent postwar...Tags: North Korea, George W. Bush, Iraq, Benghazi, Ruhollah Khomeini
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Rachel Marsden: Is America about to checkmate Russia?
American VoicesPARIS -- As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with his Russian counterparts this week in Moscow to discuss Syria, much of the world is wondering what America's endgame is. But what if we are already witnessing it? What if America's ultimate exit...Tags: Rachel Marsden, European Union, Iran's Nuclear Program, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Israel
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US weighs Syrian intervention, despite the consequences
William PfaffPARIS -- The present debate in the United States over making policy for a Middle East that has been profoundly changed by the events of the past three years unhappily echoes past policies that failed. They were intended to promote democracy and usually...Tags: Africa, North Africa, George W. Bush, Religious Conflicts, Nazi Party
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Syrian intervention: Some questions
WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions: Is human suffering the reason for the United States to act? That is the noblest and most altruistic of motives, and the estimated 70,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq, Barack Obama, Biological and Chemical Weapons, United Nations
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Stay out of Syria
With the Iraq War behind us and our departure from Afghanistan underway, the United States could be entering a well-earned respite from fighting. But even before peace can take hold, hawks are singing the old country song: "I've enjoyed as much of this as...
Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Iraq, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), Barack Obama, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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A sensible caution, poorly stated
WASHINGTON -- People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons. This is condign punishment for...Tags: Washington, DC, Diplomacy, Iraq, Mathematics, Ronald Reagan
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Syria is still not our fight
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is right to resist the mounting pressure for military intervention in Syria. Action by U.S. forces may or may not make the situation better -- but certainly could make things worse. This assessment could change, of course....
Tags: Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), Biological and Chemical Weapons, NATO
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