21/12/2006 Article

The Middle East’s New Map

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Europe, Middle East

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Bitter Lemons, December 21, 2006 In 1919, the world humbly bore the loss of one of its most imaginative diplomats, when 39-year-old Mark Sykes (the

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18/12/2006 Article

The Martial Plan

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Iran, Middle East

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Washington’s liberal, progressive, Democrat-oriented, anti-Bush newspaper — the Washington Post — has weighed in on a prospective war against Iran. They’re all for it. If

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07/12/2006 Article

If the US Should Talk to Iran, Why Shouldn’t it Talk to Hamas?

/ Paul Woodward

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Iran, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians

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James Baker threw down the gauntlet to President Bush yesterday when he commended the Iraq Study Group report as “probably the only bipartisan report he’s

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05/11/2006 Article

The Axis of Not Quite As Evil

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, War in Iraq, War on terrorism

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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

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25/10/2006 Article

Calculating Iran’s Iraq Impact: “It’s too late to switch sides” a Sunni leader argues

/ Baghdad Correspondent

Tags: Bush Administration, Iraq, War in Iraq

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Condoleezza Rice’s recent visit to Iraq was intended to show support for the battered government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but it was clear

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07/09/2006 Article

A Slippage in Language

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Neocons

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Bitterlemons, September 7, 2006 Since talk of “Islamofascism” is so much in vogue these days, it might be useful to return to those years when

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10/08/2006 Article

Why America Can’t End the Conflict

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon

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Bitterlemons, August 10, 2006 Even the most unhappily married couple in the world knows this salient truth about their relationship: that there are things that

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08/06/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
V. The Politics of Indignation

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Al Qaeda, Bush Administration, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism, War on terrorism

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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

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06/06/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
IV. Acts of Faith

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism

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Asia Times, June 6, 2006 That talking and listening would now seem so difficult is not the result of some inherent inability of differing cultures

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