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Middle East mess was born in the U.S.A.
Titillation over David Petraeus and political posturing over Susan Rice aside, here is the most important unasked question: Why did we foster regime change in Libya and Egypt that gave the Muslim Brotherhood control in the latter and produced a gaggle...
Tags: Jihad, Taliban, Iraq, Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions
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The law of drones
President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan, was about as cagey as they come last week at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Asked right off the bat by the committee chairwoman,...
Tags: CBS Corp., Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Military, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Obama's State of the Union address as prepared for delivery [Text]
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...
Tags: Graduation, Global Change, Afghanistan, Abusive Behavior, Sales
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Netanyahu's choices
As President Barack Obama begins his second term, he faces a series of Middle East challenges far more daunting than when he began his presidency in 2009. These problems include: •what to do about the Arab-Israeli conflict, with peace talks between...
Tags: Hamas, Iran, Shas, Tzipi Livni, Palestinian National Authority
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U.S. should rethink role in North Africa
The 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement and 19th Century reach of European imperialism created many nation states America is determined to defend. One of the goals of Islamic Jihad and groups aligned with al-Qaida is to demolish all the boundaries and national...
Tags: Religious Conflicts, Jihad, U.S. Department of State, Christopher Stevens
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Hillary Clinton and the 'clot plot'
Apparently, if the secretary of state needs to take a sick day, she had better get a note from her doctor. A very "transparent" note, a very detailed note. With enough copies to send to her most vociferous critics. Hillary Rodham Clinton suffered a...
Tags: Benghazi, Tom Cruise, Diseases and Illnesses, Fox News Channel (tv network), Hillary Clinton
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Plenty of unanswered questions about Rice and Benghazi
If the Obama administration is in a conundrum over the Susan Rice nomination for Secretary of State, it is one entirely of their own making ("Obama's conundrum," Nov. 30). They knew within 24 hours of the attack that it was an al-Qaida affiliate sponsored...Tags: Susan Rice, Republican Party, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
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Obama's Susan Rice conundrum
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has become a willing pawn in Senate Republicans' efforts to force President Barack Obama into a costly and unnecessary fight over who will serve as his secretary of state when Hillary Clinton leaves that post in the new year....
Tags: Benghazi, Susan Rice, Republican Party, Hillary Clinton, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
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Obama for president
Barack Obama has not been a perfect president. Millions are still suffering from a weak economy, vitally important issues like climate change and immigration remain all but unaddressed, and most disappointingly, the promise of a new politics to move us...
Tags: Global Change, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), U.S. Senate, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Finance
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Panetta tells Naval Academy graduates to look to Asia-Pacific
With Osama bin Laden dead, the war in Iraq over and the war in Afghanistan winding down, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told graduating midshipmen Tuesday to prepare themselves for "one of the key projects" of their generation: building American...Tags: Singapore, Iraq, Wars and Interventions, NATO, Afghanistan
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Putting Benghazi in context
My initial impression of the murderous attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was probably similar to yours. A horrific incident. A security failure. Another example of radical Islamic overreaction to the most tepid of incidents — in this case,...
Tags: Religious Conflicts, Political Fundraising, Benghazi, Fox News Channel (tv network), Fort Hood Shootings (2009)
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For Israel, it's different this time
Until this year, the world would have been looking at the intensifying armed confrontation between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with a sense of deja vu all over again. But this is 2012, and the political map of the Middle East has changed...
Tags: Hamas, Imperial and Royal Matters, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Abdullah II of Jordan
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