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by Barry Rubin In a December 10 al- Jazira interview, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explains U.S. policy toward Iran, showing the administration has still not really started turning from engaging Iran to slapping on high sanctions. A lot of what she said revealed the administration's almost pathological desire to avoid conflict : What we have tried to do is engage in diplomacy in a very vigorous way in order to reassure the ...
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I make it a practice to read as much of George Weigel's articles I can find: In November, the president of the United States ordered a surge of U.S. forces into Afghanistan and called on other countries to do their duty in bringing that war to a successful conclusion. A few weeks later, the same president traveled to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The notion that the juxtaposition of these two events involves a “contradiction” (as the ...
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14 hours ago ago from RealClearWorld - The Compass Blog
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17 hours ago ago from TIME.com - World
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