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Tag Archives: Near East
Team Obama In Israel: The Charm Offensive, The Makeup
I think a cynical view of team Obama’s motivation for an Israeli engagement is justified. This man and his views have no love for the strategic environment from which the Israeli’s live. After losing numerous domestic political battles, the press … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
Tagged agnostic, capabilities, charm offensive, foreign policy Iran, Iran, Mullah, Mullah's, Near East, Security
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Hamas, Preemption & Israeli Will
John Bolton got it right when he revealed that last weeks surprise attack on Israel by Iranian proxies was an attempt by Iran to read Israeli political willpower. We should know by now that all actors within the Near East … Continue reading
The Morality Of Political Realism: Fortitude For The American Imperium
What are we witnessing in the political and therefore spiritual morass that is a craven European Union, especially geopolitically and strategically? “Idealism” is a tough sell in American Foreign Policy, but most often it has been alloyed to the social … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Antiquity, Arab Spring, Arnold Toynbee, Conservatism, Constitution, Identity Development, International Relations, Islam, Morality, Near East, Pakistan, Politics
Tagged American Power, Foreign Policy, Idealism, Identity development, Imperium, Kissenger, Mesopotamia, Near East, Pakistan, Politics, Realism, Spiritual and Political
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A Review Of The Arab Spring
Amir Taheiri ranks as the most informed Persian interlocutor the West has as it engages a nuclear Iran for hegemony throughout the Persian Gulf and South America. Recently he has written a neat summary of the Arab Spring. This spontaneous … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, China, International Relations, Near East, Politics
Tagged Arab Despots, Arab Spring, Eritrea, Four Movements/Political Blocks, Freedom Agenda, Libya, Mauritania, Middle East Autocracies, Near East, Petromonarchies, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen
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The Growth Of Obama
The Presidency is not the place for ‘on the job training’, yet our current Commander in Chief may stump both supporters and opponents given his agenda to ‘reset’ the American imperium throughout the Middle East. This is witnessed in his … Continue reading
Posted in Benny Avni, International Relations, Islam, Israel, Middle East Peace, Near East, Politics, Terrorism
Tagged Bush, Freedom Agenda, Growth, Mideast Peace, Near East, Realism, Self Inflicted Political Wound, Syria
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Martin Kramer & The Failings Of The Pax Americana
Martin Kramer is an authority on political governance throughout the Near East, he has written an interesting essay contrasting contemporary liberal Neo-Marxian view of hegemony with realism in the Tablet. “In the Middle East, power is a zero sum game, … Continue reading
Posted in International Relations, Islam, Israel, Terrorism
Tagged hegemony, Martin Kramer, Near East, Peace Process
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