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" The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure. "
Elliott Abrams
Going
Pressure
Compromise
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" The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time. "
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" 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. "
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" The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment. "
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Story
" The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. "
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Men
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" There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S. "
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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. "
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Green
Birth
" The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports. "
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Regime
Quite
" Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us. "
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World
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Peace
Beginning
Mind
" The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace. "
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Standards
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" In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely. "
Elliott Abrams
Weakness
American
Struggle
" If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions. "
Elliott Abrams
Identity
Child
Celebrate
" At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready. "
Elliott Abrams
Height
War
Rights
" The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. "
Elliott Abrams
Courage
Face
Lift
" Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. "
Elliott Abrams
Population
Muslim
Sunni
" China has concluded that trade trumps all. "
Elliott Abrams
Trade
Concluded
China
" Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. "
Elliott Abrams
Far
Left
Worse
" One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. "
Elliott Abrams
Mood
Good
Israel
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Down
Peace
Israel
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Country
War
Democracy
" 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
" Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. "
Elliott Abrams
Military
Will
Short
" In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. "
Elliott Abrams
Speech
Religion
Rules
" A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy. "
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Nation
Great
Diplomacy
" 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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End
Construction
Decision
" The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player. "
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Real
Egypt
Behind
" Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources. "
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Great
Just
Small
" Four years is a long time in politics. "
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Politics
Time
Long Time
" While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel. "
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Care
Kind
Important