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		<title>Limping away from a Shattered Iraq</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/07/09/4286</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
American forces departed Iraqi cities last week to parades, fireworks, and chants of &#8220;Out, America, out!&#8221; and &#8220;America has left! Baghdad is victorious!&#8221;
They left under a Status of Forces Agreement reached in November 2008 stipulating their &#8220;withdrawal from cities, towns and villages&#8221; by June 30, 2009. In addition, by December 31, 2011, &#8220;All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Iranian Lobbying Failed</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/07/09/4282</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Spyer
President Shimon Peres&#8217;s landmark visit to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan this week represents a significant advance for Israeli ambitions in Central Asia. In the wake of the recent decision to permit Israel to open an embassy in the Turkmen capital of Ashghabad, the visit reflects the importance Jerusalem attaches to this strategically significant part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Common Foe: Obama should support the Iranian people by speaking out against their oppressors</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/07/08/4279</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Rubin*
Tear gas was still wafting through the streets of Tehran when, at a June 23 White House press conference, The Huffington Post&#8217;s Nico Pitney conveyed an Iranian&#8217;s question to President Obama: &#8220;Under which conditions would you accept the election of [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad? And if you do accept it without any significant changes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Middle East is a Place Where Wishful Thinking Gets People Killed but Makes Careers for Politicians, Diplomats, Academics, and Journalists</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/07/08/4273</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
The more things change, the more they remain the same, sayeth the French. The Bible states that there&#8217;s nothing new under the sun. Doing a television interview today made me reflect on the relationship of those concepts to the contemporary Middle East.
It is untrue of course that nothing changes in the region. Quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Evidence Legitimizes Israel’s Existence</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/07/06/4269</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
An alliance &#8212; if one can call it that &#8212; of Arabs, Muslims, leftists, and fascists &#8212; has spent years trying to delegitimize Israel&#8217;s existence and deny the rights of Jews to live in their ancestral homeland. Yet any cursory look at these delegitimizers&#8217; &#8220;proof&#8221; shows them to be ignorant, racist people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No to Sharia Law in Britain</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/07/03/4266</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Denis MacEoin*
There are many reasons to find problems with sharia law. In its full form, it contains numerous provisions that are barbaric and irreconcilable with any advanced society: stoning married adulterers, flogging the unmarried, throwing homosexuals from roofs or steep hills, amputating limbs for theft, and much more.

But sharia is much wider than that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Syria’s Goose Lays a Golden Egg</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/07/03/4263</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Spyer
Washington&#8217;s decision to return its ambassador to Syria is the latest stage in the present administration&#8217;s policy of engagement with Damascus. It relates most importantly to the US desire to secure Syrian cooperation in the build-up to the departure of American combat troops from urban areas in Iraq. 
The decision is related to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Troop Drawdown Could Be Costly for Iraq</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/07/02/4258</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Rubin*
Today is a milestone in Iraq. Under the terms of the Strategic Framework Agreement, U.S. troops will withdraw from Iraqi cities. In retrospect, however, June 30 will likely mark another milestone: the end of the surge and the relative peace it brought to Iraq. In the past week, bombings in Baghdad, Mosul and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naivete Enthroned: A CNN Editor Discovers Islamism Is Impossible Because Islam Is Good</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/07/02/4255</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
Analysis of Middle East events, it often seems, is the worst-managed of all intellectual chores concerning the contemporary world. There are ideological and political barriers that get in the way of accuracy (not to mention fairness); ignorance plays a role, as does fear. But often underlying everything is the fact that when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran, technology, and revolution</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/29/4250</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Rubin*
The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and Washington Post have dubbed it a &#8220;Twitter Revolution,&#8221; speculating about whether new technology will enable Iranian protesters to overcome government forces. The role of technology in the current unrest is well-covered elsewhere. What is lacking in much of the coverage, however, is a sense of context.

Technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identity Theft, Document Fraud, and Illegal Employment</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/29/4245</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By CIS.org
WASHINGTON (JUNE 25, 2009) - In May of this year, a Supreme Court decision severely impeded the use of identity theft charges as an immigration enforcement tool. In June, several people were arrested after a fraud scheme was uncovered at a Florida driver&#8217;s license bureau. In July, a new Utah law targeting illegal aliens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Bears With Taste</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/29/4240</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
And now, for some comic relief: A bear &#8212; you know, the big, hairy animal type &#8212; broke into a California home and went straight for the premium stuff:
&#8230; Alsky says the animal appeared to have pushed aside vegetables in the couple&#8217;s fridge and gone straight for the two-pound box of [chocolate] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAIR: Lies, Smears, &amp; Guilt By Association - Or Just Plain Treason?</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/29/4234</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Andrew Whitehead
On June 23rd, Frontpage Magazine published a devastating interview between FPM Editor Jamie Glazov and Mr. Dave Gaubatz. During this interview, Mr. Gaubatz makes startling, direct accusations regarding improper and ongoing relationships between CAIR and agents of the FBI; and presents it as the truth, not opinion. Someone who did not know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Big Freeze Leaves Israelis Cold</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/28/4230</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
Ironically, three of President Barack Obama&#8217;s ideas in dealing with foreign policy, so visible in his Iran policy, have had more impact on his relationship with Israel.
The first of these is that he held back on condemning the Iranian regime&#8217;s stealing an election and repressing its people for fear that this might provoke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Call for American Boldness in Iran</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/27/4226</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
In a striking coincidence, two very different expressions of Iranian dissent took place exactly simultaneously on two continents on Saturday, June 20. Between them, the Islamic Republic of Iran faces an unprecedented challenge.
One protest took place on the streets of Iran, where thousands of Iranians fed up with living under a religious tyranny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silence Is Not Neutrality: Obama needs to support freedom in Iran</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/23/4222</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Rubin*
Over the weekend, both conservative columnist George Will and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan argued that conservative criticism of President Obama&#8217;s rhetorical restraint amidst the Iranian protests was unwarranted.
&#8220;The president is being roundly criticized for insufficient rhetorical support for what&#8217;s going on over there. It seems foolish criticism,&#8221; Will said.

&#8220;To insist the American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: The Internal Balance of Power</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/22/4209</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Spyer
One would need a heart of stone not to be moved by the scenes currently emerging from Iran: Hundreds of thousands of youthful demonstrators, taking to the streets to express their frustration at the restrictions of life under a theocratic oligarchy &#8212; with  the communications revolution enlisted to bypass the heavy hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tehran’s Genocidal Incitement Against Israel</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/22/4212</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Elihu D. Richter and Alex Barnea*
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made international headlines when on October 27, 2005, he declared in Persian that Iran would &#8220;wipe Israel off the map.&#8221; Some commentators in the United States, most notably University of Michigan professor Juan Cole, argued that the phrase was a mistranslation and that Ahmadinejad did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran protesters: Death to Khamenei!</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/21/4204</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
&#8230; Protesters have openly defied his orders to leave the streets and witnesses said some shouted &#8220;Death to [Supreme Leader] Khamenei!&#8221; at Saturday&#8217;s demonstrations &#8212; a once unthinkable challenge. &#8230;
Protests against Iran&#8217;s leadership &#8212; Islamist mullahs &#8212; seem to be causing cracks in that same dictatorial regime. The arrests and later release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protests aren’t enough to topple the Islamic Republic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Rubin*
Street protests in Iran are important but are themselves not enough to force change. The supreme leader will not be swayed because he considers himself accountable to God, not to the people. Indeed, even the Islamic Republic&#8217;s clerical establishment is irrelevant in this calculus. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s invocation of folk religion &#8212; his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forty-Eight Hours of Reality Overthrows Obama Middle East Policy</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/20/4195</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
In the Middle East the best &#8212; laid plans of mice and men often go awry because reality steps in.
President Barack Obama based his policy of engaging with Iran on the idea that while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a wild man, Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei was a closet moderate, or at least a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t meddle, but help create a template for Iranians to act</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/19/4192</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Rubin*
As the Obama administration crafts its strategy, it should not repeat the mistakes of the past. The Bush approach lacked cohesion and coordination. A month after President Bush declared Iran part of the &#8220;axis of evil,&#8221; the deputy secretary of State said it was a democracy. And although the White House talked tough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea Takes Missile Aim at Hawaii</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/18/4183</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
North Korean &#8220;fearless leader&#8221; Kim Jong-il seems to be planning another missile &#8220;test&#8221; &#8212; aka a plan for harassment and/or extortion against the West &#8212; this time taking aim at Hawaii. Kim will probably get away with it again&#8230; and be offered some kind of concessions to placate his lunacy (see below). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three failed plans to wipe Israel off the map that keep the conflict going</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/17/4179</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
There are now no less than three main plans for wiping Israel off the map:


Conquest. This is the old PLO strategy and continues to be the Hamas strategy. In addition, it is endorsed less overtly by a large group &#8212; arguably a majority &#8212; in Fatah, the party that controls the Palestinian Authority.
Israel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carter fails to sway Hamas terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
Anyone with a modicum of intelligence &#8212; and knowledge of realpolitik &#8212; could&#8217;ve predicted that Jimmy Carter&#8217;s plea to Hamas terrorists to recognize Israel was doomed to failure. In fact, before Carter met with Hamas leaders, an attempt was made to assassinate the former president by Palestinian terrorists &#8212; possibly &#8220;Hamas extremists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Middle Eastern Cold War</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/16/4168</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
A cold war is &#8220;the key to understanding the Middle East in the 21st century.&#8221; So argue Yigal Carmon and three of his colleagues at the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) in a recent study, &#8220;An Escalating Regional Cold War.&#8221;

They have identified a major confrontation that the media has somehow missed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palestinian terrorists try to kill Carter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
Jimmy Carter has made a business out of apologizing for Palestinian terrorist groups like Hamas. Today, while visiting Gaza, some Palestinian nut-cases &#8212; possibly &#8220;Hamas extremists linked to Al Qaeda&#8221; &#8212; tried blow up Carter. Some thanks these terrorists have for Carter&#8217;s &#8220;pro-Palestinian&#8221; activities. Yet Jimmy foolishly spent the day trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP: Speed of Iran vote count called suspicious</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
How do you count almost 40 million handwritten paper ballots in a matter of hours and declare a winner? That&#8217;s a key question in Iran&#8217;s disputed presidential election. International polling experts and Iran analysts said the speed of the vote count, coupled with a lack of detailed election data normally released by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: Yes, Stealing an Election and Imposing Ahmadinejad is Rather Significant</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/06/15/4150</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
Many Western analysts and journalists are treating the stolen election in Iran as something of no international significance. After all, they say, it is only an internal matter. Why should it affect Western attempts to engage with the Islamist regime?

If we hadn&#8217;t been previously conditioned by so many crazy ways to view Middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Military Bulwark against Islamism Collapsing? The Military in Politics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by David Bukay*
In 1975, Freedom House ranked only 25 percent of the world&#8217;s countries to be &#8220;politically free.&#8221; Three decades later, the proportion had increased to 46 percent, with 122 electoral democracies.[1] Democracy may have taken root in Eastern Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and much of sub-Saharan Africa, but the Middle East has largely [...]]]></description>
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