Archive for 'War on terrorism'
Dancing with wolves: the importance of talking to your enemies
By the Rt. Hon. Michael Ancram, MP, Middle East Institute, April 19, 2007
“It is often a better use of time to talk to your enemies than your friends,” so said a wise, experienced and senior Israeli to me a few weeks ago. In a similar vein last summer following the cessation of hostilities in Lebanon […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2007 under Ceasefires, Dialogue, Diplomacy, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hezbollah war, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mediation, Middle East, War on terrorism.
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The axis of not quite as evil
By Mark Perry, Bitterlemons, November 2, 2006
We might now take George Bush at his word: in the wake of the September 11 attacks, he named three nations as the “axis of evil”: North Korea, Iran and Iraq. The statement had a solid tripartite ring to it, conjuring images of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial […]
Posted: November 5th, 2006 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Mark Perry, War in Iraq, War on terrorism.
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How to lose the war on terrorism
Part five: The politics of indignation
By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, June 8, 2006
The foundational belief of the “war on terrorism” is that militant Islam is hollow. We are not fighting a credible movement with a set of core beliefs, but “evildoers” - people who have nothing to say, who are without values, […]
Posted: June 8th, 2006 under ARTICLES, Al Qaeda, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Mark Perry, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism, War on terrorism.
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How to lose the war on terrorism
Part three: An exchange of narratives
By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, June 3, 2006
There was a time in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, when Western intellectuals debated the meaning of the attacks that occurred on that day and the most appropriate way to counter them. There was a welter of voices, […]
Posted: June 3rd, 2006 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, Hezbollah, Mark Perry, Political Islam, War on terrorism.
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How to lose the war on terrorism
Part two: Handing victory to the extremists
By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, April 1, 2006
After the writers of this article and our colleagues visited the Middle East for talks with some of the leaders of political Islam (see Part 1: Talking with the ‘terrorists’), our work was greeted warily - when even acknowledged […]
Posted: April 1st, 2006 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mark Perry, Political Islam, War on terrorism.
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How to lose the war on terrorism
Part one: Talking with the ‘terrorists’
By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, March 31, 2006
Seventy-two hours before the Iraqi people voted on a new parliament, on December 12, 2005, we were told by a senior US administration official that “detailed data received by the White House” pointed to a “decisive win” for Ayad Allawi’s […]
Posted: March 31st, 2006 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Mark Perry, Middle East, Political Islam, War in Iraq, War on terrorism.
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