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Is Obama dithering over Libya?

Commentators discuss US President Barack Obama’s strategy over the Libyan uprising. David Frum says in the Telegraph Mr Obama appears in no hurry to see Gaddafi go,

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The Embarrassments of Empire

From Egypt to Pakistan, February 2011 will be remembered as a month unusually full of the embarrassments of empire. Americans were enthralled by a spectacle

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Leading to War (2008)

  How does a government lead its people to war? How does it communicate to its citizens — and to the wider world — the

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The Enigma That Is Ahmadinejad

Help me out here folks, for I need guidance… What is up with our “fraudulently elected” President of the “Islamic Republic” of Iran, Ahmadinejad? What

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