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McManus: Obama plays for time to avoid 'red line'
Barack Obama really, really does not want to get tangled up in Syria. For almost a year, Obama's secretaries of State — first Hillary Rodham Clinton, now John Kerry — have pressed the president for more aid to the insurgents who are fighting...
Tags: George W. Bush, Rebellions, John Kerry, Dianne Feinstein, International Military Interventions
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U.S.-Mexico deal on expanded Gulf oil drilling still in limbo
ReutersBy Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - More than a year after the United States and Mexico signed a much-lauded deal that would remove obstacles to expanding deepwater drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the agreement still has not...Tags: U.S. Department of the Interior, Natural Resource Industry, Energy Resources, Global Energy Incorporated, Global Expansion
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Casey: U.S. should intervene in Syrian crisis
Sen. Bob Casey added his name Friday to a growing list of lawmakers urging the White House to take some form of military action against Syria in the wake of new evidence that President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. Casey,...Tags: Robert P. Casey, Jr., John Kerry, U.S. Department of Defense, Libya, The New York Times
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Obama's Libya nominee says security is ambassador's job
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice as the next U.S. ambassador to Libya promised on Tuesday to ensure the security of staff in the country, eight months after an attack in Benghazi killed four Americans, including the last...Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Libya, Bob Menendez, Elections
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Amid new security threats, some in U.S. Congress look to update 9/11 law
Reuters* Some say law stretched beyond original intent * Questions about Obama drone policy fuel talk of change * Backing from Democrats and Republicans By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - A few dozen words rushed into law days after the Sept....Tags: George W. Bush, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Rand Paul, Carl Levin, Justice System
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Could Iran's presidential politicking open door to nuclear deal?
Thirty years of punishing sanctions have failed to curb Iran’s rogue behavior. Perhaps, a growing chorus of diplomats and security experts suggest, it is time for the United States to change tactics. With a presidential election in the Islamic...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Defense Equipment, John Kerry, Islam, Iran
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Secretary of State John Kerry urges against new Iran sanctions
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John F. Kerry implored Congress on Thursday not to impose tough new sanctions on Iran, warning that such a move could disrupt diplomacy over Tehran's disputed nuclear program at a delicate moment. Appearing before...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Defense Equipment, John Kerry, Iran, Elections
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Young leader pushes back harder than ever
— How provocative has the United States been to North Korea? For almost two months, the United States and South Korea have had more than 200,000 ground troops, tanks, helicopters, fighter-bombers, strategic bombers, submarines and destroyers...
Tags: South Korea, North Korea, Defense, Weaponry, Seoul (South Korea)
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COLUMN: Inching closer to entanglement in Syria
The White House finally made it official last week: Yes, the civil war in Syria is a slippery slope, and yes, we’re on it. Nobody in the Obama administration actually used those words, of course. But if you paid attention to what officials said,...Tags: Rebellions, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), The New York Times, Saudi Arabia, Barack Obama
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Another reason for U.S. to act on Syria: Sending message to Iran
In my Sunday column, I argued that events are pushing President Obama toward a bigger role in aiding rebel forces in Syria’s civil war -- not direct military intervention, perhaps, but certainly more direct help for the insurgents. Yes, I wrote, it&...
Tags: Rebellions, Iran, Bashar Assad, Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama
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McManus: Inching closer to entanglement in Syria
The White House finally made it official last week: Yes, the civil war in Syria is a slippery slope, and yes, we're on it. Nobody in the Obama administration actually used those words, of course. But if you paid attention to what officials said, it...
Tags: Rebellions, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), The New York Times, Saudi Arabia, Barack Obama
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U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the school engineer explained, to scare off the building's...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Military, Hamid Karzai, NATO, Hospitals and Clinics
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Apr 15, 2013
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Apr 14, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Apr 6, 2013
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