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free, except for the catches in the fine print
The Aleppo campaign seems bogged down by lack of dry powder.They agree to disagree. But one thing is certain, they don’t seem to really want a free functioning liberal democracy with both secular and religious rights in harmony side by … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmad al-Sheikh Abu Eissa, Ahrar al-Sham Salafist, David Petraeus CIA, Franz Marc, Franz Marc paintings, Free Syrian Army, Hussein Fahs Hezbollah, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nusra Front, Prince Bandar Saudi Arabia, Ray Caesar, Ray Caesar art, Skinner Box, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, Yoni Alpert Terror Watch
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kickin’ up a ruckus
The Arab Spring began as a revolutionary movement with a open, and sometimes radical program for renewal, as last compared to the existing order. And it turning out to be something failrly similar to what it replaced. In Syria, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abdel Fatah Younis, Bashar el Assad, Camp Bastion Helmand Province, Christopher Stevens ambassador, Free Syrian Army, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx Brothers A Night in Casablanca, Recep Tayyip Erdogan AKP Party, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, The Marx Brothers
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fill the void: the voidoid zone
Just another week in the Middle East. The U.S. is now hedging its bets on the Syrian Free Army, simply a little too wily and wooly and seem to be looking for strategic alternatives by splitting hairs between classifying moderate … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Pipes, Fill the Void Rama Burshtein, Free Syrian Army, Gary Cooper, Gustav Klimt, Kathy Evans, Lipa Schmeltzer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Mohamad Morsi, Mursi Egypt, Nadim Shehadi, Omer Shatz We Are Refugees, robert fisk, Said K. Aburish, Salam Fayyad Palestinian Authority, Salman Rushdie, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, thomas friedman
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guide to the perplexed: how to lose a war
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. What next? How much the academic think-merchants should share in the responsibility for these messy predicaments is not really quantifiable. But judging from what he read and see, the American government would have found a better guide … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Nusra Front, ambassador James Jeffrey, Andrew Tabler, Cardinal Spellman, Clausewitz, Damien Cave, David Crist The Twilight War, Edward Sorel, J.J. Graham Clausewitz, kirsten cale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Eisenstadt, Moises Saman, Otto Dix, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, Syria War, The Washington institute
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last call: accept no substitutes
Mohammed, two years before his death, had met his immediate goals. The Moslem faith, once practiced by a persecuted minority, was now, through the Word and more preponderantly, by the Sword, was now a state religion. He was strong enough … Continue reading
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Tagged Abdel al-Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Aisha and Mohammed, American Center for Law and Justice, Bashar Al Assad, Free Syrian Army, Ground Zero Mosque controversy, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Islam and Christianity, Jay Sekulow, Jonathan Steele Guardian, Khairat al-Shater, King Abdullah Jordan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohamed Morsi, Mohammed death, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, robert fisk, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, thomas friedman new york times
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the hegira: where 622=1
Its always been complicated. The Mohammedan calendar is based on twelve lunar months, or 354 days, and in a Christian century there are about 103 Mohammedan years. And with the Children of Israel? Mohammed’s career shows that the animosity between … Continue reading
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Tagged Ali Khamenei, ambassador James Jeffrey, ayatollah Ali Khamenei, David Crist The Twilight War, doug saunders globe and mail, Free Syrian Army, Gareth Porter, Hassan Nasrallah, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Medina Jews, Mohammad Khatami, Mohammed and Raihana, Mohammed and the Jews, Mohammed and the Meccans, Mohammed and the Old Testament, Mohammed in Medina, Mohammedan calendar, Nic Robertson CNN, Obama Drone Warfare Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Olympics Women, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, The Hegira Islam, The Hegira Mohammed, year of the Hegira
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