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17 Nov 09

Informed Comment: 20-Year-Old Letterhead points to Israeli Forgery in Francop Affair

  • The Israelis have been maintaining that a ship, the Francop, that their forces boarded near Cyprus originated in Iran and was bringing arms to Hizbullah and Hamas.
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13 Nov 09

Islam is now overwhelmingly Asian, not Arab (Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog)

  • New census says 1.57B Muslims in the world, or about 23% of the world population
  • Here's the kicker: only 2/3rds of Muslims are Asians, meaning substantially less than 1/3 are Middle East/North African or Arab (think of all the Muslims in the rest of the world).
11 Nov 09

Educate boys, or they'll go to war | FP Passport

  • A World Bank research
    paper     posted today finds that countries with a high proportion of young
    males with low levels of secondary education are significantly more conflict-prone.
  • "youth bulges"
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03 Oct 09

Informed Comment: The Most Dangerous Nuclear Facility in the Middle East

  • There is a secret nuclear facility in the Middle East, however, producing plutonium and not just enriched uranium, which has the capacity to make 10 nuclear warheads a year.
  • It is Israel's ongoing nuclear weapon production that drives the nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Saddam wanted a bomb because Israel had one. The Iranians were then worried both about an Iraqi and an Israeli bomb. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and others are annoyed at their geostrategic helplessness in the face of Israeli nukes.
20 Mar 09

Eunomia » The Many Hidden Successes Of George W. Bush

  • What few episodes of supposedly successful democracy promotion did occur during the Bush years have either resulted in empowered Islamist militias (Lebanon and Gaza), they have stalled and devolved into quasi-authoriarianism (Georgia) or failed from the beginning (the “Tulip Revolution”). Despite the important observation that the “surge” has failed on Mr. Bush’s own terms, Senik insists that it was “one of the boldest and most successful gambits in the history of presidential decision-making.” Sometimes I have wondered how detached from reality one must be to remain a steadfast Bush loyalist after so much failure, but rarely have I had the chance to see the distilled essence of such loyalism expressed with such perfect obliviousness about the realities of Mr. Bush’s foreign policy legacy.
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