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- When it comes to foreign policy, Jeb Bush leans toward his father's model not his brother's, says David Horsey.
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- The grisly discovery Monday of the bodies of three Israeli teens who had been abducted June 12 as they hitchhiked home from a West Bank settlement yeshiva set off a week of mounting violence in the region.
- Calls for American intervention in Iraq follow on a century of misreading the Middle East.
- As expected, former Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi won the latest Egyptian election for president by a landslide, giving the military establishment total control of all governmental instruments of power. He won 92 percent of the votes with 46 percent turnout. President-elect el-Sissi now has an historic chance to usher in a new democratic Egypt. Unfortunately, the last 10 months of his rule have indicated a far different future for his struggling country.
- The country is poised between continuing its transition to democracy or a reversion to authoritarian rule
- New leadership and constitution in Egypt are not necessarily bad signs
- The U.S., Europe and Russia must work together to keep the former Soviet republic from spiraling out of control
- As the world's most powerful democracy and a large aid donor, the United States was uniquely positioned to support the Egyptian people's quest for freedom and a better future. Instead, our response has been remarkably short-sighted and always a step behind.
- In the early days of the new year, it might be good to take a moment to recognize that however disappointing Obama's policies may be, it could have been a lot worse if any of Obama's key opponents — Republican or Democrat — were sitting in the White House today.
- A suspension of U.S. military aid may be too little, too late to force Egypt's generals to restore civilian rule
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- Neglect of Middle East's other conflicts could greatly damage U.S. interests even if a peace deal is achieved
- Two weeks after deposing the country's first democratically elected president, Egypt's generals still haven't offered a timetable for restoring civilian rule
- With the generals back in charge, Egypt's transition to democracy just got a lot harder
- The State Department damaged American interests with its reflexive support for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
- The country's fledgling democracy is imperiled anew by the generals now calling the shots
- With mass protests in the streets against President Morsi, time is running out for a political solution to the crisis
- A recent Johns Hopkins graduate says the protests of Mohamed Morsi's attempted power grab represent not a failure of Egypt's experiment with democracy but a hopeful sign for its eventual success.
- The Gaza conflict forces Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to pick a side, and it's not ours.
- We learned from the third debate that Mitt Romney basically agrees with President Obama's foreign policy. For undecided voters, this discussion left far too many issues unaddressed.
- Aside from rhetorical flourishes, Romney's foreign policy prescriptions differed little from those of the president
- Republicans are unfairly using Middle East protests for partisan gain
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- Don't let prejudice against the Muslim Brotherhood cloud views of Egypt's new president.
- Cal Thomas says we would be fools to trust the Muslim Brotherhood's Morsi
- Obama administration to blame for Islamist taking office in Egypt
- The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi must seize the opportunity presented by his historic election as president
- Military's assumption of dictatorial powers betrays Egypt's democratic revolution
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- The election and candidates may not be perfect, but this key Arab nation is embarked on a promising, democratic course
- Mubarak's trial marked contrast with how the U.S. treats heads of state who commit crimes
- No matter who wins Egypt's presidential election, this week's vote shows that the power of democracy has taken hold in one of the world's oldest nations.
- The question we should be asking is why politicians change their minds
- For Israel, breaking off all contact with the Palestinian Authority over its attempt to reconcile with Hamas could represent a missed opportunity for peace
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- The violent crackdown on protesters in Cairo is showing the true colors of the Egyptian military and revealed its unwillingness to cede control of the government to civilian rule in any meaningful way
- The U.S. shouldn't prop up tyrants, including the ones who claim to be on 'our' side
- The strong showing of religious parties in Egypt's recent elections isn't necessarily inimical to the emergence of democracy
- The riots between Egyptian Copts, Muslims and security forces suggest how difficult the country's peaceful transition to democracy may be to achieve
- Roscoe Bartlett bill would boost fuel competition so U.S. drivers would no longer be paying for dictators' expanding budgets
- The quick fall of dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt hasn't caused the rapid fall of other regimes that many hoped for; under the circumstances, the Obama administration's wait-and-see approach may be the only viable option.
- At the end of a wild week that saw more than 100 attacks on journalists and press facilities in Egypt, TV news executives were left shaking their heads at the volatility and violence, but vowing to continue to find ways to cover the tumult in days ahead.