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Who's to blame for our politics? Don't ask
There is a classic "Doonesbury" cartoon, published soon after the Vietnam War ended, in which the antiwar activist Mark Slackmeyer is arguing with his pro-war father. They go back and forth, each blaming the other's politics for everything that's wrong in...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Abraham Lincoln
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McManus: Inching toward Syria
Military intervention in the Muslim world seems to bring the United States nothing but grief. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya: None looks much like a success story now. Yet the Obama administration is edging reluctantly into a civil war in Syria, aiding rebels...
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), Politics, Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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While Syria burns, Obama stands idly by
WASHINGTON — Last year President Barack Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of "Responsibility to Protect." Moammar Gadhafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing "would have been a...
Tags: Massacres, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Russia, Amusement and Theme Parks, Saudi Arabia
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Obama's flexibility doctrine revealed
"On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it's important for him (Putin) to give me space. … This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility." Barack Obama to Dmitry Medvedev, open mic,...
Tags: Defense, Civil Rights, Politics, Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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On Syria, Iraq's shadow is long
WASHINGTON -- This week's 10th anniversary of the Iraq War passed quietly, and that's not a bad thing. Most Americans have no wish to celebrate the war, fought under false pretenses to a costly and ambiguous end. But in Washington this week there are...
Tags: Politics, Iraq, Juan Vargas, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prosecution
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Sequester, held in contempt
WASHINGTON -- I hate the sequester, beginning with its name. "Sequester" is a verb, not a noun. This ridiculous exercise is not just unwise and unproductive, but ungrammatical as well. I hate the way the sequester diverts attention from issues that...
Tags: Politics, Arne Duncan, Labor Markets, The Washington Post, Casey Stengel
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Syria: Staying out or getting in?
Secretary of State John Kerry announced yesterday that the United States will provide $60 million in direct aid to the rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad. For those of us who oppose direct US intervention in the conflict, the good news is...
Tags: John Kerry, Barack Obama
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McManus: A team of rivals on Syria
Last August, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-CIA Director David H. Petraeus proposed that the United States change its policy and send weapons and other aid to the rebels fighting the Syrian government. Defense Secretary Leon E....
Tags: Defense, David Petraeus, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, White House
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This will not end well
WASHINGTON — In Syria, the Obama administration seems to be stumbling back to the future: An old-fashioned proxy war, complete with the usual shadowy CIA arms-running operation, the traditional plan to prop up ostensible "moderates" whose...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Central Intelligence Agency
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Obama's plan to arm Syrian rebels falls short
Here are five observations, most of them depressing, about the Syrian civil war, formulated in light of the announcement by the White House that President Bashar al-Assad's regime has, in fact, used chemical weapons and that, in response, the U.S. will...
Tags: Massacres, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genocide, White House
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Why John Kerry wants airstrikes against Syria
Tuesday, shortly after I posted a column on Secretary of State John Kerry's push to have the White House approve U.S. strikes on Syrian airfields — and how Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey pushed back strongly against the idea — I...Tags: United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Marketing, White House, Weaponry
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Romney to assert strong U.S. role in world affairs
Article Highlights: - GOP challenger Mitt Romney makes a foreign policy speech on Monday - Romney will criticize President Barack Obama's leadership in the world - Aide: Romney seeks the same U.S. foreign policy role since the end of World War II -...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Joe Biden, Weaponry, Israel, Nuclear Policy
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