Mahmoud Abbas’ Jewish problem
Why the Palestinian leader can’t make peace with Israelis
Marshall Plan
Biden Revives the Truman Doctrine
His call to wage a global war for freedom echoes the dawn of the Cold War.
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U.S. and allies must confront China’s quest for world domination
Here are things that have happened, so far, in 2020. The Earth recorded its hottest January ever. Australia burned. A pandemic killed more than half a million people and left their funerals unattended....
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Oliver Stone’s Party Line
Re-litigating the Cold War and defending the honor of poor old Joe Stalin.
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If Only France and Germany Were in the Electoral College
The rest of the world adores Obama, but it shouldn't matter when Americans go to the polls
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Let Syria Be
‘We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.” That’s the concluding rally cry of the U.S. Department of Defense’s newly issue...
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Egypt’s Next Big Moment
With only days left before Egyptians are expected to vote in their first elections since the fall of president...
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Petraeus’s Israel Problem
Max Boot is a good historian. On Islam, I often disagree with him, finding in his work the wishful thinking common among Islamic Democracy Project enthusiasts. Still, he is thoughtful and civil,...
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Afghanistan Matters Because of Pakistan
President Obama is taking his time deciding what to do next in Afghanistan. Never mind that he's rethinking a war he declared a "war of necessity" just a few short months ago. Never mind tha...
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Two Views on Rumsfeld
When the nation went to war in Iraq in 2003 (with overwhelming popular support) and for a long time after that, Rumsfeld had rock-star status. With Abu Ghraib and his management of this millstone...
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The Fall Guy
With democracy’s seductive melody lilting in the background, the Bush administration and its petulant partner, the new Iraqi regime of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, have waltzed into chao...
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The Enduring Consequences of the First World War
If the First World War was to be the "war to end all wars," the Paris Peace Conference established a "peace to end all peace." In both the scale of its devastation and in its political consequenc...
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Defeat of Terror, Not Roadmap Diplomacy, Will Bring Peace
By: Newt Gingrich. Many observers hold that the death of former Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and the subsequent election of Mahmoud Abbas to lead the Palestinian Authority ha...
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Let the Battles Begin
A long and hard-fought political campaign has ended, but there will be no rest for the weary. Instead, it's time for new battles to begin. The most consequential will be not between America&...
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Call in the Private Sector in Iraq
My friends tell me I sound like a broken record pleading for a 21st-century Marshall Plan for Arab and Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia. That's because I am passionate ab...
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Afghanistan Leader and Hero
Since September 11, 2001, it has become clear a stable, democratic future for Afghanistan is integrally linked to American national security. A country devastated by more than 20 years of war, Af...
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De Soto for Nobel Prize
Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in the months of October and November. The selection of prizewinners starts in the early autumn of the preceding year, when the prize-awarding institutions invi...
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Middle East Peace and Prosperity
President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously observed that, "It is useless to win a war, only to lose the peace." In Iraq, we not only must win the peace, failure is not an option. I was pleased to l...
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Bridging the Rift in the Middle East
As usual, the word from the Middle East recently has been a mixture of good news, bad news. One piece of good news is that the Iraqi Governing Council has signed an interim constitution establish...
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A Cure for the Clash?
Early in the final decade of the last century, Harvard professor Samuel Huntington offered what seemed an eccentric prediction. While others saw economic, political and ideological tempests ahead...