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" The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene. "
Elliott Abrams
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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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" 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. "
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" Pessimism is rife in Israel. "
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" One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. "
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" 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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" In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times. "
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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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" 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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" If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened. "
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" 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. "
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Early
Speeches
" 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. "
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American
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" 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. "
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" The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home. "
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Down
Peace
Israel
" People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't. "
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Them
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" Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. "
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Caribbean
More
Republic
" What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries. "
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Wants
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" 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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Building
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" 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. "
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Events
Change
Face
" 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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Compromise
Hard
" I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror. "
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Call
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" 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. "
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Building
Great
Effort
" Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom. "
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Say
" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "
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" For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. "
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" The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. "
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" 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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" 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
Clarity
Look
" The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left. "
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Simply
Than
Left