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By Orville Schell
By Bill Boyarsky
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There’s a certain bitter irony in this week’s headlines in France about an Islamic terrorist network being rounded up in Strasbourg, Paris, Nice and Cannes, at the same time as the TV news shows French forces beginning their withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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By Barry Lando — The outburst of anti-Americanism sweeping much of the Arab world was ignited by an off-the-wall film insulting Muhammad, but the underlying outrage is fed by decades of resentment against the U.S. and its ally, Israel.
Posted on Sep 19, 2012
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By Barry Lando — Apart from Mitt Romney’s ridiculous slur against President Obama after the slaying of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Americans should focus on the state of affairs suggested by the following questions: When was the last time a Chinese diplomat was killed or even roughed up by an angry mob? When did you last hear about a Chinese embassy being burned down or pillaged?
Posted on Sep 14, 2012
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AP/Bebeto Matthews
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By Barry Lando — Mike was part reporter, part actor playing reporter. He had a flair for the dramatic, the ability to achieve almost instant rapport with interviewees no matter their wealth, achievement or background.
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AP / Jacques Brinon
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By Barry Lando — No one gained more from the crisis in Toulouse than President Nicolas Sarkozy, for whom law and order has always been a calling card.
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AP / Bob Edme
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By Barry Lando — Mohammed Merah, a teenage loser and a petty thief who achieved instant worldwide notoriety as the latest symbol of Islamic jihad, leaves a string of unanswered questions and paradoxes in his wake.
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By Barry Lando — The harrowing stories that have come down to us from the Warsaw Ghetto are eerily similar to the horrific accounts emanating from Homs and other Syrian towns over the past few months.
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White House / Pete Souza
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In the brief interview he gave NBC before the Super Bowl, President Obama declared, “I’ve been very clear that we’re going to do everything we can to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and creating an arms race, a nuclear arms race, in a volatile region.” Sounds like a very laudable goal, right? Except for the fact that the nuclear arms race in the Middle East is already under way.
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U.S. Air Force / Tech. Sgt. Michael Holzworth
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By Barry Lando — Better to let Iraq blow itself apart than inflict the kind of policies that have, as most commentators refuse to acknowledge, plagued the country’s entire, sorry history.
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By Barry Lando — The downing of a sophisticated U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone over Iran is the latest ratcheting of tension among Washington, Tehran and Jerusalem.
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Preston Rhea (CC-BY-SA)
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By Barry Lando — For several years now the Pakistanis have found China a very willing and increasingly powerful counterweight to the Americans and their often strident political demands.
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Lars Christopher Nøttaasen (CC-BY)
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Truthdig contributor and former “60 Minutes” producer Barry Lando argues that China has cleverly exploited poor relations between Tehran and Washington, to the point that the Middle Kingdom now imports more oil and gas from Iran than the U.S. does from Saudi Arabia.
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AP / Thierry Charlier
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Europe’s right-wing parties, many of which once had explicitly anti-Jewish messages, have expanded their hatred to Arabs and Muslims.
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White House / Pete Souza
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Former “60 Minutes” producer Barry Lando imagines what the president might have said to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
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AP / Javier Galeano
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By Barry Lando — At a time when the White House is spending hundreds of billions and has dispatched killer teams to liquidate Osama bin Laden and lesser targets, imagine what the leaders of other countries—Cuba, for instance—might do if they declared their own war on terror.
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Navin Shetty Brahmavar (CC-BY)
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When the secret history of the current “Arab Spring” is written, we may learn that one of the many unintended consequences of U.S. attempts to keep up with—and influence—the historic events was to provide a flood of new recruits to radical Islam.
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U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Marc I. Lane
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Since President Obama’s “no U.S. boots on the ground” declaration—a statement that has been repeated by every U.S. spokesman since, we have learned that, in fact, CIA operatives have been active in Libya.
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White House / Pete Souza
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There’s a problem when world leaders announce fervid support for universal principles: There is no way to avoid having those highflying words flung back at them at another time, during some other crisis, when they will have no choice but to lie or duck and scamper for cover. (more)
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AP / Murad Sezer
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By Barry Lando — President Obama has ordered his staff to examine how his predecessors handled situations such as the Libyan revolution. One of the most frequently mentioned was a disgraceful episode that reverberates to this day.
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AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
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By Barry Lando — Egypt in February 2011 is not Iran in January 1979, yet I am reminded of the fate of Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, once Iran’s foreign minister, ultimately destroyed by the man and movement he devoted his life to bring to power.
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White House / National Archives
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By Barry Lando — With a well-known thing for murderous dictators, Henry Kissinger’s advice on Egypt should be met with skepticism.
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AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill
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By Barry Lando — In attempting to persuade Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave the scene, Washington desperately wants to avoid further radicalization on the streets of Egypt and, above all, to ensure that the Egyptian army remains unscathed.
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Flickr / joost j. bakker (CC-BY)
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By Barry Lando — The world will need 70 percent more food in 2050 than it produced in 2000, but the resources available are plummeting.
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AP / Ramon Espinosa
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By Barry Lando — There’s a certain irony in the fact that as one bloody, corrupt dictator headed off to ignominious exile, thousands of miles away another returned.
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AP / Christophe Ena
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By Barry Lando — American officials were for Tunisia’s ousted despot before they were against him. Across the Middle East and Central Asia it’s the same: U.S. allies are invariably corrupt dictators, maintained in power by lavish patronage and the military.
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Flickr / Mad Mike 3000
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By Barry Lando — There are limits to the virtues of free expression in a nation where semiautomatic pistols can be obtained by near-lunatics, including those who believe that their mission is to save the United States or mankind from the forces of darkness.
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Flickr / Matt Clark (CC-BY)
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A glance at The New York Times this morning (downloaded to my iPad in Rome) and it’s evident we’re already inhabiting a Matrix world. ... (more)
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U.S. Army / Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith
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Thursday’s New York Times headline on Pakistani disappearances and U.S. disapproval is just a bit too much to take. ... (more)
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By Barry Lando — Almost 10 years ago, with the invasion of Afghanistan, President Bush announced the global war on terror. But over that same period, the lot has only worsened for some of the most terrorized people on the planet, millions of people across a huge swath of Central Africa.
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