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" Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction? "
Elliott Abrams
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" When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. "
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" Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters. "
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" The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003. "
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" The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known. "
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" I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats. "
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" The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive. "
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" There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending. "
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United Nations
United
" The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent. "
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" The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers. "
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Equipment
Tough
Soviet
" The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports. "
Elliott Abrams
Exports
Regime
Quite
" Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it. "
Elliott Abrams
Down
Leader
Terrorism
" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "
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Ahead
Way
State
" If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so. "
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Denial
Become
" Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government. "
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Great
Head
Government
" There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S. "
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Muslim
" I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution. "
Elliott Abrams
Communist
Guy
First
" Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits. "
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Today
Travel
Limits
" The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left. "
Elliott Abrams
Simply
Than
Left
" The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy. "
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Encourage
Economy
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" Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together. "
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Realize
Together
Problem
" I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus. "
Elliott Abrams
Would
Personally
Talk
" Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad. "
Elliott Abrams
Kerry
Fooled
Senator
" In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace. "
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Party
King
Political
" For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies. "
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Freedom
Nature
Political
" Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. "
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American
Alone
Change
" In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter. "
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War
Policy
Just
" For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing. "
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Saying
Doing
Everything
" Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier. "
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End
Will
Now
" The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006. "
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Dubai
United States
World
" The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. "
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Good
Men
Service