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Hillary and Syria

From Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post Questions for Hillary Clinton: Does the United States have national security interests at issue in Syria? Did the inability to negotiate a status of forces agreement in Iraq embolden Iran and/or unleash sectarian violence?...

What Does Victory Look Like in Syria?

Mark Steyn writes in The National Review, An Accidental War: I see the Obama “reset” is going so swimmingly that the president is now threatening to go to war against a dictator who gassed his own people. Don’t worry, this isn’t anything like the dictator who gassed...

Is Democracy A Prerequisite for Innovation ?

Eamonn Fingleton writes in the New York Times America The Innovative?, 3/31/13 Excerpts: Few of the most creative societies of the ancient world were free. Certainly not Mesopotamia or Egypt. As for the spectacular creativity of early modern Europe, this somehow...

Real Respect for Power

From Today’s Sultan Knish: The United States was founded by English colonists who were dissatisfied with vesting this much power in a chief executive. Yet it’s the UK, whose leaders were far more bent on war, that will recall its parliament and put the question...