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" The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time. "
Elliott Abrams
Long
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" Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was because of its gas, because of its size, because of its struggle against terrorism that sometimes turned bloody. "
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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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" 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. "
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" While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray. "
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Free
" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "
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Way
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" Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims. "
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" Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. "
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Party
Political
" There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from many of us in the pro-Israel camp in the United States. "
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Society
Us
Class
" I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror. "
Elliott Abrams
Leaders
Call
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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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Rhetoric
Good
Lift
" Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. "
Elliott Abrams
Gap
Security
Used
" As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt. "
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America
Words
Peace
" Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme. "
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Original
Republic
Poverty
" 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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General
Early
Speeches
" American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world. "
Elliott Abrams
Today
Cold
War
" Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing. "
Elliott Abrams
Israel
Syria
Number
" Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. "
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Far
Left
Worse
" While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left. "
Elliott Abrams
Government
Democracy
Power
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Teacher
Father
Mother
" Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. "
Elliott Abrams
American
Alone
Change
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Obligation
Been
Charity
" Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set. "
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Big Brother
Own
Judging
" 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
" Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands. "
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Violence
Terrorism
Hope
" Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together. "
Elliott Abrams
Realize
Together
Problem
" From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews. "
Elliott Abrams
Days
Europe
Holocaust
" If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting. "
Elliott Abrams
Down
Meeting
Group
" The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports. "
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Exports
Regime
Quite
" Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia. "
Elliott Abrams
Before
Setbacks
American