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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. - President Barack Obama's latest foray into the Middle East is unfortunately reactive and uninformed, and shows how very little he seems to take into account our bloody history in the region.
- When he set off to foreign lands with a bike and a camera, Matthew VanDyke intended to give himself a ¿crash course in manhood.¿
- After months watching the uprising in Syria, spreading support through social media and raising money for the suffering, Dr. Hassan Masri thought he understood the devastation that has sundered his parents' homeland.
- Rather than another ill-conceived military intervention in the Middle East, we should focus on efforts to foster ties to the new, moderate regime in Iran.
- Technology can combat the use of mobile communications to enable crimes like those alleged in the Baltimore jail case
- When the heart says Baltimore and the head says D.C., follow the heart.
- President Obama has demonstrated that he, not the military and not the State Department, decides when the U.S. becomes involved in armed conflicts abroad.
- Algeria and Mali underscore the continuing threat of Islamic extremism across North Africa
- President Obama offers a commendable record and a more pragmatic vision for the future than Mitt Romney.
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- 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 for a documentary about the uprising in Syria.
- U.S. might try being honest about our economic interests in Middle East conflicts
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- Bashar Assad's murderous rule in Syria must be stopped one way or another; his crimes against his own people have surpassed what a civilized world can tolerate
- Jules Witcover: Republicans complain about politicizing of fight against al-Qaida
- Despite some disappointments, Obama is the most progressive president since FDR — and the alternative is unimaginable
- Robert Reich says Hillary Clinton will take Joe Biden's spot on the 2012 ticket, Mitt Romney will win the GOP nomination, and he'll pick Marco Rubio as his running mate. The upshot: Obama/Clinton in a walk.
- Jules Witcover says much careful work is needed to solve the enigma of the Hermit Kingdom
- The U.S. shouldn't prop up tyrants, including the ones who claim to be on 'our' side
- Jules Witcover writes that Republicans have failed to protect defense spending by insisting instead on no tax increases.
- The delay of the Keystone XL pipeline is one in a long series of decisions that has strangled the nation's economy, tied our fortunes to Middle East oil and ceded the advantage to China and other Asian economies.
- The Baltimore man who traveled to Libya in February, at the start of a political uprising there, returns to Baltimore
- Matthew VanDyke –the Baltimore writer and filmmaker who was jailed in Libya for nearly six months and then remained to aid rebels seeking to overthrow dictator Moammar Gadhafi – is scheduled to return home Saturday.
- More than two centuries after an American ship blew up off the shores of Tripoli, an ad hoc group that includes history buffs, military veterans and descendants of the sailors is working to repatriate their remains for burial with honors on U.S. soil.
- Rachel Marsden writes that America may be at a disadvantage when it comes to Libyan oil contracts because of President Obama's hands-off approach to the conflict there.
- Liberals who hated torture in Iraq now embrace assassination in Libya
- Cal Thomas writes that the death of Moammar Gadhafi may well prove a turning point for Libya, but a turn toward what?
- Death of Libyan dictator leaves many uncertainties
- Matthew VanDyke to return to U.S. from Libya in a couple of weeks, his mother says.
- President Obama's critics derided his 'lead from behind' strategy in Libya, but it has produced the best possible result.
- With an increasingly networked military fending off attacks on its computer systems on a daily basis, the Naval Academy is rapidly expanding its cybersecurity offerings — part of a larger effort to bolster the service's digital defenses.
- Matthew VanDyke went to Libya in part to witness history and perhaps write about it. After being captured by Moammar Gadhafi's forces and imprisoned, he has joined the rebels fighting in the toppled strongman's final stronghold of Sirte.
- What can the U.S. do to reduce the threat posed by Libya's unsecured weapons stockpiles?
- An American writer and filmmaker who ended up in Libya's most notorious prison during the turmoil of the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi feared he would be one of the dictator's forgotten victims.
- An American writer and filmmaker who ended up in Libya's most notorious prison during the turmoil of the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi feared he would be one of the dictator's forgotten victims.
- Matthew VanDyke, the Baltimore man who went missing in Libya in March, has escaped from an infamous prison one day after rebel forces stormed Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli.
- Fall of Gadhafi is an example of millions squandered on an unnecessary war.
- Sharon VanDyke still has not heard from her son Matthew, a 32-year-old Baltimore writer and photographer who has been missing in Libya for five months, having arrived in that country to chronicle the rebel uprising that is now on the brink of toppling Moammar Gadhafi.
- While the fighting in Libya's capital appears to signal the end of Col. Gadhafi's 42-year rule, the rebels still face enormous challenges in stabilizing the country and preventing a collapse into anarchy
- Despite delegating the fighting to Predator drones, the U.S. war in Libya is illegal, unconstitutional and unauthorized by Congress
- The mother of a writer missing in Libya since March said Thursday her son Matthew VanDyke is being held in a prison in Tripoli.
