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McManus: Obama plays for time to avoid 'red line'
Barack Obama really, really does not want to get tangled up in Syria. For almost a year, Obama's secretaries of State — first Hillary Rodham Clinton, now John Kerry — have pressed the president for more aid to the insurgents who are fighting...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Dianne Feinstein, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Hillary Clinton
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Syria is still not our fight
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is right to resist the mounting pressure for military intervention in Syria. Action by U.S. forces may or may not make the situation better -- but certainly could make things worse. This assessment could change, of course....
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Abdullah II of Jordan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Washington, DC
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McManus: Inching closer to entanglement in Syria
The White House finally made it official last week: Yes, the civil war in Syria is a slippery slope, and yes, we're on it. Nobody in the Obama administration actually used those words, of course. But if you paid attention to what officials said, it...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Libyan Civil War (2011), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Navy
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McManus: Inching toward Syria
Military intervention in the Muslim world seems to bring the United States nothing but grief. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya: None looks much like a success story now. Yet the Obama administration is edging reluctantly into a civil war in Syria, aiding rebels...
Tags: Iraq, Wars and Interventions, Human Rights Watch, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya
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Kokomo marine among those killed during base attack in Afghanistan
A Central Indiana marine was among those killed during a Taliban attack at a military base in Afghanistan Sergeant Brad Atwell, of Kokomo, died Friday, when Taliban insurgents snuck onto the Bastion base on Friday wearing US Army uniforms and set off...
Tags: Taliban, Afghanistan
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McManus: A call to arms for Syria's rebels
A new word defines the debate over Syria in Washington: endgame. Policymakers expect the regime in Damascus to fall soon, and their focus has shifted to what happens then. In a cold-blooded, pragmatic sense, the United States and its allies don't want...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Weaponry
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'Total Recall': Remember this? ★★ 1/2
In the opening seconds of the"Total Recall"remake, the words "original film" appear on the screen, referring to a production company calling itself Original Film. So before it even begins, the movie delivers its first inadvertent joke. Original this...
Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Tatopoulos, George Lucas, Total Recall (movie, 2012), Paul Verhoeven
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Unifying Syrian Opposition Key
The Hartford CourantThe Syrian opposition took a big step forward this month by forming a broad political coalition that includes local activists who started the revolution. But the opposition's military command is still a mess, and until it's fixed, jihadist extremists will...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Al-Qaeda, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hillary Clinton, Religious Conflicts
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Petraeus: Driven, Focused Leader Falls
The Hartford CourantDavid Petraeus achieved genuinely great things in his career, so his fall as CIA director over what he bluntly described in his resignation letter Friday as "extremely poor judgment … engaging in an extramarital affair" has the poignancy you...Tags: Iraq, Wars and Interventions, Nouri Maliki, Kabul (Afghanistan), David Petraeus
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Romney to assert strong U.S. role in world affairs
Article Highlights: - GOP challenger Mitt Romney makes a foreign policy speech on Monday - Romney will criticize President Barack Obama's leadership in the world - Aide: Romney seeks the same U.S. foreign policy role since the end of World War II -...
Tags: Barack Obama, Nuclear Weapons, Values, Iran, Weaponry
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Romney calls for strong U.S. role in world affairs
Article Highlights: - Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama has weakened U.S. influence - Romney backs conditions on foreign aid, U.S. help in arming Syrian rebels - The GOP challenger gives what his campaign calls a major foreign policy...
Tags: Barack Obama, Nuclear Weapons, Iran, Elections, Weaponry
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McManus: A smaller, smarter military
President Obama has called a halt to the decade-long rise in defense spending that began after Sept. 11, and has proposed shrinking the Army and Marine Corps by about 14%. Congressional Republicans (not to mention Mitt Romney) say that would be...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Iraq, Sociology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Pentagon
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