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The president's walk-back: A pink line over Damascus?
WASHINGTON - You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to The New...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran, Jay Carney, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Pink line over Damascus
WASHINGTON -- You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to The New...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran, Jay Carney, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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Stay out of Syria
With the Iraq War behind us and our departure from Afghanistan underway, the United States could be entering a well-earned respite from fighting. But even before peace can take hold, hawks are singing the old country song: "I've enjoyed as much of this as...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Iraq, Martin Dempsey, Pakistan
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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: Washington, DC, Bashar Assad, Russia, Abdullah II of Jordan, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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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: Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Navy, John McCain, Jay Carney, Robert Ford
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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: Bashar Assad, Religion and Belief, Politics, Iraq, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Tags: Bashar Assad, Hosni Mubarak, Cab Calloway, Civil Unrest, Hillary Clinton
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War: Obama's fatal attraction
It's a good thing we didn't elect John McCain in 2008. A McCain victory would have meant an escalation in Afghanistan, a third war in the Middle East and a president sending U.S. forces into harm's way heedless of public opinion or congressional power....Tags: Bill Clinton, Iraq, Georgetown, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan
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Does duty call in Libya?
On Independence Day in 1821, then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams delivered an address on foreign policy to Congress. The question that preoccupied them all at that moment was how to respond to the wave of revolutionary independence movements...Tags: Charity, Social Issues, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Crimes, Nazi Party
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Should the U.S. intervene in Libya?
Steve ChapmanOne lamentable characteristic of many people in Washington and the foreign policy establishment is an impulse to send American warplanes, aircraft carriers or Marines anytime anything bad happens in the world. One of those is Sen. John McCain, R.-Ariz.,... -
Tension over downed Turkish jet shows risk of Syria spillover
World NowGlobal Focus: In the four days since Syrian air defenses shot down a Turkish military jet, attempts by Ankara and Damascus to contain the security fallout have given way to accusations, veiled threats of consequences and fears of a widening regional...
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