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" People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't. "

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" 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. "

" A Palestinian state will never be created by terror. "

" While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes. "

" The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. "

" The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States. "

" 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. "

" Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. "

" The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor. "

" The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai. "

" Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiator. "

" Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington. "

" An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure. "

" There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S. "

" Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy. "

" The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. "

" After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. "

" The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans. "

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

" Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure. "

" You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution. "

" Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. "

" Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government. "

" The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics. "

" If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true. "

" 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. "

" Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country. "

" Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. "

" Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction? "

" The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace. "

" The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror. "