The Pope’s visit comes at a time of turmoil in the Middle East, and his trip represents both a religious and political statement to the Christians living across the region.
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The organizers of these riots are nothing more than political operatives, much like those who organize Democratic and Republican campaigns for elective office.
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The U.S. government must make clear to their Egyptian and Libyan counterparts that apologies are not enough. Justice is needed, as is the assurance that this can never happen again.
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Pope Benedict XVI began a three-day visit in Lebanon amid escalating tensions in the Muslim-dominated Middle East, preaching the message of inter-religious dialogue.
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The Libyan government and people are eager to solve their security problem. The consulate attack is a wake-up call to the U.S. to offer more assistance and support than it has.
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The shared conceit of both political parties is that American values and interests overseas are synonymous, but if they aren’t, which ones do we sacrifice first?
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The violent protests across the Muslim world triggered by an anti-Islam film have now spread to Sydney, Australia, where eight people were arrested and six officers injured.
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The search for the person behind the film that's prompted deadly riots across the Muslim world keeps taking one weird twist after another.
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American foreign policy is nonsensical and irrational. Time to make it explicit - you threaten American lives, America will threaten you right back.
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Do this week’s attack on U.S. embassies send a signal that the U.S. should reduce its diplomatic footprint in the Middle East and elsewhere?
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Clearly, American efforts to "export democracy" to the Middle East are not working. It's time for a new course.
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Governor and Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson is right that current U.S. foreign policy must change immediately.
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In a significant blow to al-Qaeda, U.S. drone strikes killed senior officials of the terrorist group, including the second-in-command of the organization's Arabian Peninsula group.
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U.S.-Israel relations are likely to be a feature of the Republican campaign. Despite Clinton's claim that Netanyahu is to blame for lack of peace, we should stick with our allies.
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Technocrats may be effective economic managers, but they make for terrible country leaders because they put profits ahead of people.
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The West must rethink its Middle East foreign policy. At the same time, Islam must reconsider its views as they relate to the rest of the world.
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The riot at the U.S. Embassy in Sana'a comes at a tumultuous time for U.S.-Yemen relations, and is more about the past year than about a YouTube movie.
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Whoever runs the U.S. embassy in Cairo’s Twitter feed is snarky and not about to take any ... well you know.
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The protests that left the US ambassador to Libya dead will inevitably lead to questions about security/policy. Here are three thoughts that represent an inital reaction to the damage done.
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While we may have thought American aid during the Arab Spring was enough to smooth out anti-American rage, attacks in Cairo and Libya show that this is not the case.
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The reaction to the embassy attacks in Cairo and Libya has resulted in a lot of conversation about freedom of speech and religion, and the revelation that many people don't know what either mean.
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The embassy attacks in Libya and Egypt heighten a growing concern that the Arab Spring is being undermined by fundamentalist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Well, it’s safe to say the sh@t hit the fan in the Middle East.
And a month and a half before the U.S. general election no less.
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Britain's third in line to the throne is currently an Apache pilot in Afghanistan and a Taliban kidnapping target. His deployment is PR friendly but is not cost-effective, or safe.
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Recent news reports saying that presumptive president to be and current Vice President Xi Jinping of China having “disappeared” add further complications to China's tense political engine.
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