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Quote of the day

Fouad Ajami in the Wall Street Journal. Eight years ago, we were visited by the furies of Arab lands. We were rudely awakened from a decade whose gurus and pundits had announced the end of ideology, of politics itself, and … Continue reading

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The irony of change

I don’t have many arguments with Roger Cohen’s latest column, After the War on Terror. He’s correct that the President’s interview on Al Arabiya marks the end of the war on terror; that words are important and that President Obama … Continue reading

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Coulda, woulda, shoulda

Fouad Ajami expressed his regret that President Bush is leaving office. One thing is sure to go with Mr. Bush when he departs to Crawford, Texas: his “diplomacy of freedom.” That diplomacy — which propelled the wars in Afghanistan and … Continue reading

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