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Libya crisis the latest chapter in Obama's foreign policy follies
We're now entering the fourth week of the "CSI: Benghazi" hostage crisis. That's how long an FBI forensic team has been trying to gain access in Libya to what the State Department still calls a crime scene -- the Obamaadministration's preferred term for...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, YouTube, Fort Hood Shootings (2009), Times Square, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011)
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The West can't change Islam, and it's folly to try
Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's recent Op-Ed attempts to paint President Obama as part of our Middle East problem ("As Middle East burns, Obama fiddles," Sept. 30). His suggestion that moderate Muslims help remove the threat from radical Islam to our...Tags: Islam, Iran, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Barack Obama, Pakistan
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Obama goes soft on Iran — again
After listening to speeches during the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, I concluded that both U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad do not take each other seriously. Mr. Obama repeated his old...Tags: Iran, Barack Obama, Timonium, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hamas
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VanDyke, 'Arab Spring freedom fighter,' planning trip to Syria
Matthew VanDyke, the Baltimore man who was captured in Libya last year while fighting with the rebels who eventually overthrew dictator Moammar Gadhafi, says he is now raising money to travel to Syria and film a documentary about the uprising there....
Tags: Rebellions, U.S. Department of State, Revolutions, Free Syrian Army, Documentary (genre)
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Is U.S. aid to Syrian rebels helping al-Qaida?
A recent intelligence leak confirms something that regular readers of this column already know: that the Obama administration has officially authorized covert support of local "rebel" groups, through government agencies like the CIA, with the goal of...
Tags: Defense Intelligence Agency, The Washington Post, Fox News Channel (tv network), Al-Qaeda, Halloween
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U.N. veto leaves Syria on the brink
Today's decision by Russia and China to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution to impose sanctions on the brutal regime in Syria is, at most, a hollow victory for President Bashar Assad. Russian officials say they opposed the measure for fear...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Rebellions, Defense, Armed Forces, Injuries and Wounds
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Obama puts U.S. security at risk
President Barack Obama reacted a few months ago to a question aboutIran's deliberate efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. His reply and how he was going to prevent it was "all options are on the table." That's sort of like imagining General George...Tags: Iran, Barack Obama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Brazil, Russia, India and China: The world's trouble children
As the world struggles to deal with its two largest foreign-affairs dilemmas, Syria and Iran, resolutely standing in the way are the BRICs. That's the acronym foreign-policy wonks use for the block of nations that routinely refuses to join the...
Tags: Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Brazil, European Union
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Support Syria's rebels
The uprisings in Syria and other Middle Eastern countries, which are receiving considerable media attention, invite comparison to America's struggle for freedom and independence during the Revolutionary War ("Showdown looms in Syria," July 28). The...Tags: Barack Obama, Wars and Interventions
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No good options for Iran
Speculation in Israel about the possibility of a strike on Iran's nuclear program in the coming weeks has intensified, and not just because of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's tough talk in Jerusalem. Mr. Romney called for the U.S. and Israel...
Tags: Defense, Israel, Petroleum Industry, Nuclear Policy, Iran's Nuclear Program
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Rachel Marsden: Could we have the wars without the manipulation?
Testifying before a Senate committee a few months ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lamented that America was "in an information war, and we are losing that war." This week, she blew a fuse at the "Friends of Syria" meeting in Paris, saying that...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Petroleum Industry, Libyan Civil War (2011), Fox News Channel (tv network), Muammar Gaddafi
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Ambassador to Syria keeps profile low in Bolton Hill
When the violence in Syria began spinning out of control last year, the Obama administration made the unusual decision to bring its ambassador to the troubled country home.
And for Ambassador Robert Ford, coming home has long meant returning to...Tags: Robert Ford, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Johns Hopkins University, Barack Obama, Government
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