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Springtime in Turkey?
Not Happy with Islamists The general collapse of the old order in the Levant continues. My bet is that these largely secular protestors will go the same way as the anti-regime protestors in Iran. They...
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The Deadly Crescent
David Goodman writes about Syria: If we had a Syrian elite dedicated to modernization, free markets, and opportunity, we could have an economic recovery in Syria. But the country is locked into...
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Crunch
The crunch and clangs you are hearing is the sound of the car wreck which passes for American foreign policy at the moment. Russia is not keen at this stage for a binding U.N. Security Council...
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Good Guys
News of an impending chem weapons “deal” in Syria is a reminder of how surreal Middle Eastern politics can be. There is next to no chance the terms of the deal will have any reality but that does not...
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Go Kurds, GO!
http://time.com/2898883/iraq-turkey-kurd-isis/ If there is any glimmer of light in the Iraq debacle it is that the Kurt are well on their way to sovereignty. The crazed Arabs and equally insane...
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The Madness of Islam
With all of the usual qualifications as to not all Muslims….Are these people nuts? The answer – from the killing fields of Iraq and Syria to the rocketeers in Gaza – is pretty clearly, “Yup. Whacked,...
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Long views
A long break from writing my blog but not from thinking about the questions which drive it. In the interim we have seen the rise of IS, the economic laming of Europe, the collapse of high oil prices...
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You have to go to a British paper at this point to get the nationality and religion of the Cascade mall shooter. And, of course, the motive is “unclear” and terrorism is not suspected. Motive is likely...
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