Nir’s Notes

By NIR BOMS
April 21, 2005  Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111405417240212947,00.html
“Politics is about changing things,” Javier Solana recently said, emphasizing that Europe has a leading role to play in promoting democracy in the world and particularly the Middle East.
Such rhetoric coming out of Europe begins to sound similar to President George W. Bush’s own vision of a “Greater [...]

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By Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck
Published July 14, 2004, The Washington Times

One of the more intriguing aspects of last week’s transfer of power in Iraq was the reaction it drew from neighboring governments in the region, particularly those that, traditionally, have been anything but democracy-friendly. 
Iran’s mullahs, for instance, “welcomed” the transfer as giving “sovereignty back [...]

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