Articles inside the category: Ibn Dawood
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Sunday, 25 Sep, 2011
Decline has never been a comfortable conversation for any great power, not alone a super power, but for the "city on the hill", it's a particularly uncomfortable topic. A sense of exceptionalism, at the heart of the American identity, often keeps such thinking at bay.
While such discussion often is cyclical and over-hyped, an important truth still exists: the declining economic position of the US due to its fiscal mismanagement and the rise of other powers, dilutes America's indispensabl...
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Friday, 16 Sep, 2011
At a time when moderation, pragmatism, and vision is needed, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hawkish and ideological foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman have fully embraced the blinding ‘Iron Wall’ mentality which inflates an unrealistic conception of Israel’s national interest and promotes a view of an imagined Greater Israel; while white washing the uncomfortable realities of a changing Middle East.
This hard-line foreign policy has so far failed to reap Israe...
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With November a little over a year away, America is getting into gear for Campaign 2012. The second Republican primary debate is being held at the “temple of the Republican ...
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Thursday, 25 Aug, 2011
The fall of Tripoli, symbolically, represents a turning point for Washington, London, and Paris after six months of bombarding Qadhafi’s disintegrating forces. Similar to the...
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Friday, 12 Aug, 2011
It’s a very lonely time for the Assads of Syria. Facing the largest domestic challenge to their rule since they came to power in 1970, Bashar Al-Assad and has family have so ...
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This past Wednesday, in one of the more grotesque public spectacles of the Arab Spring, the infirmed 83-year-old former President of Egypt was prominently wheeled in on a hospi...
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