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George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.
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What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
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There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.
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President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq.
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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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Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.
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The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time.
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The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.
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America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.
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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
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I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.
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There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.
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Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.
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Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism.
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The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there.
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I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
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Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy.
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At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.
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Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.
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When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.
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Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.
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During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.
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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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Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.
Elliott Abrams