November 6, 2008
I read this news on the same day I knew that the American people have elected their first African American president for the next 4 year and I felt that in the Arab world we still have a lot of time to become like the Americans and have the freedom to choose whoever we want to from the Persian Gulf ...
go to article »August 29, 2008
This is the man we are told holds the most credibility on foreign affairs in the US presidential election. I am interested in good relations between the United States and Russia. But in the 21st century nations don’t invade other nations. John McCain, 13 August, 2008, Birmingham, Michiga...
go to article »July 14, 2008
With a new tenant in the White House, the American policy toward the Maghreb is likely to undergo some important retooling in 2009. The magnitude of the changes is unclear as the new American administration will probably view the region through old and new lenses. John McCain, despite his Republi...
go to article »June 16, 2008
June 14, 2008
Michael Rubin’s WSJ op-ed on why the US should support the removal of Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan is bothersome. Having followed Turkey for the last two years somewhat closely (I make a conscious effort to listen to Turks in Boston and to look at Turkish newspapers and websites in my daily rotation ...
go to article »June 6, 2008
You will develop newfound sympathy for your predecessors in the Bush administration. There are a hundred things they could have done differently, but the primary fault for the failure to contain Iran does not lie in Washington. It lies first with the feckless international community. The ...
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After talking with various people and looking over several reactions to Barack Obama’s realization of the Democratic presidential nomination (as well as Mrs. Clinton’s shamelessly arrogant speech), I have decided to post a few of the ones I agree with or find interesting, along with some older s...
go to article »June 5, 2008
May 28, 2008
A reason to take Hillary Clinton less seriously: Desperate to get attention for her cause to seat Florida and Michigan delegates, Hillary Clinton compared the plight of Zimbabweans in their recent fraudulent election to the uncounted votes of Michigan and Florida voters saying it is wrong whe...
go to article »May 16, 2008
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