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" I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change. "

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" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. "

" America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult. "

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" The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. "

" The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy. "

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" At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away. "

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" Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem. "

" I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again, the thing to do is a one-time strike. Maybe a cruise missile strike at one or two of their air bases just so they know what they're going to gain from using chemical weapons on the battlefield. "

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" It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians. "

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" On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days. "

" Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy. "

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