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Europe’s Misspent Influence

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Europe and the Middle East

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 [...]

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Assad Is Speaking

June 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Saudi Arabia

Friday, December 12, 2003 By: Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck In his three-and-a-half years as Syrian President, 38-year-old Bashar al-Assad has been called many things by U.S. officials. Misunderstood is not one of them. Yet, if Assad’s recent comments to the New York Times are any indication, the U.S. has it all wrong when it [...]

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