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" 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
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" I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again, the thing to do is a one-time strike. Maybe a cruise missile strike at one or two of their air bases just so they know what they're going to gain from using chemical weapons on the battlefield. "
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" When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond. "
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" Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. "
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" The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. "
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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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" 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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" The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation. "
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" The Pope is not a political figure. "
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Political
" Why are diplomatic cables secret at all? "
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" It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians. "
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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. "
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Words
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" Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. "
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Security
Used
" The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite. "
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Army
Syrian
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" On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East. "
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Office
East
Middle
" Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington. "
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Washington
Never
Much
" Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits. "
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Today
Travel
Limits
" 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. "
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Outside
Government
Step
" There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending. "
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Nations
United Nations
United
" Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. "
Elliott Abrams
Population
Muslim
Sunni
" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "
Elliott Abrams
Size
New People
People
" The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006. "
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Dubai
United States
World
" For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington. "
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Ambassador
Saudi
Washington
" I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus. "
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Would
Personally
Talk
" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "
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Ahead
Way
State
" 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. "
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Obligation
Been
Charity
" 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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Fighting
Government
" You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces. "
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Without
" The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known. "
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Ancient
Community
Well
" 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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