By Sarah N. Stern and Kyle Shideler It seems like all the elements are coming together for a perfect storm coming out of Iran. Here in the United States, we are exhausted after two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and weary of any further military intervention. We, at EMET, are on Capitol Hill constantly,...
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Archive for February, 2012
Iran-The Gathering Storm Clouds
On The Crisis in Syria and Historical Inevitability
Lately, I have been hearing a great deal of talk inside the beltway about the inevitable decline of America. The buzz is that all great powers, from that of Rome to Great Britain, have inevitably risen and fallen, and that the United States, because of a series of severe miscalculations in recent years, is...
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Wishful Thinking: Negotiating With the Taliban
“Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy, because it threatens U.S. interests.” – Vice President Joe Biden, December 2011 “Dreamers tell us dreams come true, it’s...
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Palestine: Where a Radical Society Produces Radical Leadership
“47 years ago the revolution started. Which revolution? The modern revolution of the Palestinian people’s history. In fact, Palestine in its entirety is a revolution, since Umar came , and continuing today, and until the End of Days. The reliable Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), in the...
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