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" The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports. "
Elliott Abrams
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" The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai. "
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" The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid. "
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" Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it. "
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" Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. "
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" I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution. "
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" Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead. "
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" There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending. "
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Nations
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United
" 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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Just
" Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. "
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Alone
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" As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt. "
Elliott Abrams
America
Words
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" In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. "
Elliott Abrams
Embarrassing
Admission
Technological
" The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them. "
Elliott Abrams
Building
Great
Effort
" The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms. "
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Acting
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" George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly. "
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System
Compromise
Hard
" 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. "
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Influence
Government
Support
" In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact. "
Elliott Abrams
Impact
American
Kind
" The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country. "
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Country
War
Democracy
" What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries. "
Elliott Abrams
Israel
Wants
Countries
" Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. "
Elliott Abrams
Political Party
Party
Political
" I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him. "
Elliott Abrams
Long
Human Rights
Life
" Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end. "
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End
Quick
Been
" In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected. "
Elliott Abrams
General
Early
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" President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.' "
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Time
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Look
" Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. "
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Caribbean
More
Republic
" Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America. "
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Men
America
Death
" The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises. "
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Security
Without
Power
" The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. "
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Israel
Egypt
Depends
" Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism. "
Elliott Abrams
About
Short
Judaism
" In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates - with North Korean help. This reactor was a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program. "
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Intelligence
Building
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