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Sun Tzu

Al Qaeda Spokesman: ‘America Has Been Defeated in Iraq’

BAGHDAD (AP) – The U.S. pulled its troops out of Iraq because its economy is collapsing and it needed to save money, an al-Qaida front group said in a message posted on its website Wednesday, its first online comment since the U.S. completed its pullout last month after nine years of war. Scene from a January [...]
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Sun Tzu

Wave of Bombings Across Iraqi Capital Kills 60

After a U.S. troop withdrawal some criticized as premature, could Iraq experience the kind of instability and violence seen in South Vietnam in 1973? Or is this a last, desperate show of strength from a fading Al-Qaeda? BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of at least 14 bombings ripped across Baghdad Thursday [...]
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Keith Davies

Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Favoritism Will Lead to War in the Middle East

Over the last year we have seen our government sell out Hosni Mubarak, the key leader who has brought relative peace and stability in the region. Instead, we have jumped on board with the “Arab Spring” which has led to Islamists taking power. My colleagues and I are not privy to CIA intelligence, but [...]
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Alyssa A. Lappen

Seeing Real Life Sharia In Action (Part III)

A continuation of the review of: Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws are Choking Freedom Worldwide Read Part I and Part II here. Victims in the West In addition to additional Muslim reformers, the book covers several other cases of apostates, Christian converts and former Muslim critics, including the especially heroic Ibn Warraq and former Syrian physician Wafa Sultan (280-286), most [...]
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Alyssa A. Lappen

Seeing Real Life Sharia In Action (Part I)

Review of: Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws are Choking Freedom Worldwide “Apostasy is, in principle, subject to sharia hudud rules, which means that the punishment—death—is believed to be fixed by divine order and not subject to judicial discretion…,” write Paul Marshall and Nina Shea in chapter two of Silenced: How Apostasy and [...]
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Dan Friedman

Upheaval in Syria, Somnolence in The White House

Events in Syria are moving at an increasingly rapid pace, perhaps reaching critical mass. But you have to wonder whether Obama & Co. has been caught napping. If there is a country in the Arab world where trying to shape events is a vital American interest, it’s Syria. For starters, the brutal regime is the [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

6-Jul-11 World View — Moody’s Cuts Portugal’s Debt Rating To Junk Status

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Germany’s Constitutional Court to decide legality of bailouts Germany’s Constitutional Court Another potential problem for the EU’s plans to bail out Greece arose on Tuesday as Germany’s Constitutional Court began hearings on the legality of Germany’s involvement in bailouts for Greece and other eurozone countries. The critics are arguing that [...]
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Walid Phares

The Taliban Plan for Afghanistan: It’s Takeover

Before and after President Barack Obama announced the new U.S. strategy on Afghanistan, I engaged in a variety of media panels and private discussions with commentators and analysts from Arab and Muslim-majority regions of the world. Some of the individuals I spoke with are close to the Taliban and others are critical of the Islamist militia. [...]
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Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI)

Seize Freedom Excerpt Two: Win Our War for Freedom

[The following was excerpted from Rep. Thaddeus McCotter's book, Seize Freedom: American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age - used with permission.] In 2006 I attended my oldest son’s eighth-grade graduation. Graduating with him was a girl named Jennifer, the daughter of my childhood friend Miles, who was absent. That night, I talked [...]
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El Cid

Iraq War Post-Mortem: We Lost, Iran Won

Big Peace contributor Ted Galen Carpenter has an important piece at the National Interest where he assesses Iraq then and now.  He argues that however you want to slice it, the war has made us worse off.  He makes some powerful points. An excerpt: “By intervening in Iraq, the United States in essence traded an authoritarian, staunchly [...]
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