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By webmaster, on August 28th, 2009
Why the “vast right-wing conspiracy” is working.
By: Charles Krauthammer
From the issue of July 05, 2005, Commentary magazine
The post-cold-war era has seen a remarkable ideological experiment: over the last fifteen years, each of the three major American schools of foreign policy—realism, liberal internationalism, and neoconservatism—has taken its turn at running things. (A fourth school, isolationism, has a long pedigree, but has yet to recover from Pearl Harbor and probably never will; it remains a minor source of dissidence with no chance of becoming a governing ideology.) There is much to be learned from this unusual and unplanned experiment. Continue reading The Neoconservative Convergence
By webmaster, on August 9th, 2009
Fiction
by: Hichem Karoui 
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Now that everything is over or nearly over, I can say that it was not bad at all. If I had to put it back from the start, I will certainly do it again, without great changes. On the whole, I am almost satisfied. With the days, the weeks, the months and the years going by, I am growing older and wiser as it seems to me. As I take the seventy-three turn and look backward, I have the impression – perhaps a deceiving one- that I have not entirely missed my life, after all. The ways of the providence are really unfathomable. When I was a youngster, I craved to be an artist – a painter or a sculptor, perhaps even an architect. I would have given anything to enter the Beaux-arts in Paris. I was completely fascinated by the lives and works of my great contemporaries, not to speak of the titans of the previous centuries. I wanted to be an artist and wished nothing more than to obtain a scholarship for the Beaux Arts; but fate intended it otherwise. A scholarship was accorded to me, but to study artillery…far from Paris. Thus, I was put on the way that led me, after a long plight, to the post I was occupying before I arrived here, which is considered to be the highest not only in my country, but anywhere in the world, since I was actually President of the Republic.
I have ruled my country during twenty years. When I think about it now, I find that it was a very short period. I did not even feel it elapsing. It was like a dream or a wink. And today, sitting in my long-chair on the balcony of this nice villa overlooking the river, I am able to see my life unfolding before my eyes like a movie, wherein I have been alternately the hero and the walker-on, the hangman and the victim, the film maker manipulating the strings, directing, advising, ordering, and supervising the comedians and the technicians, and the great star playing the paramount role before the cameras. Continue reading EXILE (1)
By webmaster, on August 7th, 2009
Defining American Interests in Afghanistan Foreign Affairs – July/August 2009 Steven Simon STEVEN SIMON is Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1994 to 1999, he served on the National Security Council in various positions, including Senior Director for Transnational Threats. The Obama administration recently completed its 60-day review of [...] . . . → Read More: Can the Right War Be Won?
By webmaster, on August 7th, 2009
By webmaster, on August 7th, 2009
By webmaster, on August 7th, 2009
By webmaster, on August 6th, 2009
Edited and translated by Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin Preface The genesis of this book lies with Norman Calder, from shortly before he died in 1998. In 1997 Norman had been approached by a publisher to put together a book of readings on Islam. While neither a full prospectus nor a contract for the work had [...] . . . → Read More: Classical Islam: a source of religious literature
By webmaster, on August 5th, 2009
Husain Haqqani & Hillel Fradkin Journal of Democracy How should we understand the emergence and the nature of Islamist parties? Can they reasonably be expected not just to participate in democratic politics but even to respect the norms of liberal democracy? These questions lie at the heart of the issues that we have been asked to address. In [...] . . . → Read More: Islamist Parties and Democracy: going back to the origins
By webmaster, on August 5th, 2009
Author: Barry Rubin This book provides a history and analysis of political events in the Persian Gulf since the Iranian revolution as well as an analysis of U.S. policy. The purpose of this book was to provide an explanation of how the Persian Gulf area had developed into an area of such importance and turmoil. [...] . . . → Read More: Cauldron of Turmoil: America in the Middle East
By webmaster, on August 5th, 2009
By Ramzy Baroud Israeli officials face a conundrum that may take more than military muscle-flexing to resolve: how to deal with Iran? The solution to this dilemma will require no less than sheer political genius. It must be frustrating for Israeli policymakers and their friends and backers elsewhere to stand idle as Iran openly [...] . . . → Read More: Israeli Conundrum: ‘How to Deal with Iran’
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