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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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
Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Iran, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians
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
Tags: Bush Administration, War in Iraq, War on terrorism
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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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
Tags: Bush Administration, Neocons
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
Tags: Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon
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
Tags: Al Qaeda, Bush Administration, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism, War on terrorism
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
Tags: Bush Administration, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism
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