Archive for 'Mark Perry'
Liberty leads the people, even in Tehran
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, June 18, 2009
We in the “the West” have a special place in our traditions for anniversaries. We celebrate two important ones just now. It was twenty years ago that thousands of children arrived in China’s Tiananmen Square to petition their leaders for greater rights. They built a papier-mache statue of […]
Posted: June 20th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Democracy, Iran, Mark Perry.
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The answer is always Clausewitz
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, April 30, 2009
The wry and oft-repeated saying among senior American military officers is always good for a laugh: “no matter what the question,” they claim, “the answer is always Clausewitz.” Unlike many war theoreticians, Prussian Major General Carl von Clausewitz actually served in the military–fighting Napoleon and spending time in […]
Posted: May 3rd, 2009 under ARTICLES, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mark Perry, Middle East, Obama administration.
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The China syndrome
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, March 19, 2009
The late historian Barbara Tuchman was an accomplished writer, but her reputation rests more properly on her insights. Her seminal work, August 1914, was so filled with them that few historians can write of “the war to end all wars” without mentioning it. Its silver binding stands glimmering, […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2009 under ARTICLES, Dialogue, Hezbollah, Mark Perry.
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Questions for Barack Obama
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, January 15, 2009
We await the arrival of Barack Obama. Some believe he will work wonders. Others aren’t so sure. This uncertainty has forced the hand of our citizens, who scramble to shape the ground he will walk. It is under the guise of influencing public attitudes that commentators have most […]
Posted: January 30th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Mark Perry.
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Little shop of horrors
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, November 6, 2008
I once asked one of my Palestinian friends what he thought the United States should do to help the peoples of the Middle East. He was incredulous: “Haven’t you done enough?” In retrospect that pained reply seems the perfect answer to my presumption: I’m from America and I’m […]
Posted: November 20th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Mark Perry, Middle East.
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America’s victory in Lebanon
By Mark Perry, Bitterlemons, June 12, 2008
The prime minister of His Majesty’s Government, the rotund Lord North–reputed (falsely) to be the bastard son of George III–once sniffed to his cabinet that if it were not for the interference of France, the American colonists would surely return to the loving arms of their mother country. He […]
Posted: June 20th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Mark Perry.
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