Opinion: While World Looks Away, Iran Cracks Down
AP
While the world focuses its attention on the unrest in Libya, and on other Middle Eastern countries trying to throw off tyrannical leaders, Iran is seizing the opportunity to increase repression of...
Opinion: The US Isn't Powerless In Libya
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Moammar Gadhafi refuses to go down without a fight -- killing hundreds of civilians through indiscriminate firing from airplanes and helicopter gunships and by foreign mercenaries. In a vintage,...
Opinion: After 41 Years, It's Time for Moammar Gadhafi to Go
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To most Americans, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi is a clownish character who wears outlandish clothes, likes female bodyguards and sleeps in a tent. In 2009, on his one and only trip to the United States,...
Opinion: After Egypt, Is Iran Next?
Egypt and Iran are now joined by a date on the calendar: Feb. 11 is Revolution Day in both countries. But Egypt has a far better chance at realizing the hopes of its revolutionaries for a transition...
Opinion: Is Obama Losing His Nerve on Egypt?
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Tens of thousands of Egyptians thronged Cairo's Liberation Square again today, proving that the revolution that began two weeks ago is far from over. It's the Obama administration that seems to be...
Opinion: The Man Who Told Mubarak His Time Was Up
AP
As more than a million people massed in Cairo's now aptly named Liberation Square, President Hosni Mubarak finally bowed to reality and announced that he would not run for a seventh term as president...
Opinion: The US Should Back Egypt's Democrats
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While watching the State of the Union address Tuesday night, I thought of a young Syrian I met in 1999 when I visited that scenic but politically constricted nation. I had been talking about...
Opinion: Could This Be the Map to Mideast Peace?
Washington Inst.
It's a cliche among foreign policy circles that everyone knows what an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will look like. Now a Washington think tank with close connections to officials in both...
Opinion: Little Tunisia's Big Message to Middle East Despots
Fethi Belaid, AFP / Getty Images
The demise of the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia by a popular uprising is a first in the Arab world and shows that the aging despots of the region must provide more freedom to their people or risk a...
Opinion: Time to Draw a Map For Mideast Peace
Tara Todras-Whitehill, AP
A difficult political year for President Barack Obama ended with a flourish, not a whimper, as he piled up bipartisan victories with the ratification of a new Strategic Arms ReductionTreaty with...
Opinion: Iran Should Free Ebrahim Yazdi
AFP / Getty Images
(Dec. 6) -- On my first trip to Iran in 1996, I met a rumpled U.S.-educated academic long marginalized by the Iranian government. At the time, I did not think that the man -- Ebrahim Yazdi -- was...
Opinion: WikiLeaks' Silver Lining
(Nov. 29) -- While the Obama administration is understandably furious and embarrassed by a massive leak of confidential diplomatic cables, the latest WikiLeaks data dump could actually have a silver...
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