Faced with Hostile Obama, Netanyahu to Take Iran Nuclear Campaign to Russia

At odds with Washington over terms of an emerging international nuclear agreement with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will on Wednesday take his campaign against the deal to Moscow. “We’d like them to have a better understanding of our concerns and the need to prevent Iran from having a breakout capacity,” an Israeli official told AFP […]

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Scoring the Syria Deal

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online September 17, 2013 [Differs in minor ways from the NRO version.] Diplomacy has never witnessed anything like the dizzying and erratic sequence of events relating to Syria that began on Wednesday, Aug. 21 and ended 3½ weeks later, on Saturday, Sept. 14. Who won, who lost? It’s too soon […]

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Why do Socialist Liberals Hate Putin?

 Socialist and Liberals alike hate Putin because he promotes free enterprise. “In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.” – Vladimir Putin Liberals hate Putin because HE OPPOSES PUBLIC […]

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Putin: Let’s Join One Another to Crush the Unholy, Unruly, Jihadi Muslims

by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH PUTIN How do I put this politely? You Americans are dumb. Today, Russia and America are fighting each other over fighting the Muslim radicals. Instead, we should be uniting to crush these violent Islamists, once and for all. You Americans want to remove my ally, the Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad. To borrow […]

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Obama’s Ad Lib Syria Policy Puts Putin in Driver’s Seat

President of Russia Vladimir Putin (Valery Sharifulin/ZUMA Press/Newscom) Moscow has quickly exploited Secretary of State John Kerry’s off-the-cuff remark on Monday about how Syria could avoid a U.S. military attack by giving up its chemical weapons. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov swiftly launched a Russian initiative, which Syria immediately welcomed. Now the Obama Administration has […]

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Russian Peace Plan: The Fallout Begins

September 11, 2013 15:56 by Pesach Benson President Obama took his case for Syrian intervention to the public in a national address (video/transcript). See also the Wall St. Journal, which rounded up the highlights of the president’s six network interviews. Fallout from the Russian initiative: According to Israeli media reports, when Moscow told Bashar Assad […]

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Checkmate: Russia and Syria Make Peaceful Weapons Deal

The Obama administration unable to diplomatically come to a peaceful resolution and trying to rush to at attack, Russia’s Vladimir Putin was working a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Syria said Tuesday it has accepted Russia’s proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Tuesday […]

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Obama’s Visit to Russia Nears As U.S. and Russian Warships Head to Eastern Med

(CNSNews.com) – Russian warships reportedly were heading for the eastern Mediterranean on Friday, one week before President Obama is due to attend a G20 summit hosted by President Vladimir Putin at a time when bilateral relations are at their lowest ebb since Russia invaded Georgia five summers ago. As Obama continues to mull a possible […]

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