Faces of Tahrir

In Arabic, but no sub-titles needed.

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Courting Disaster

Listening to critics of Obama’s decision to try certain terrorist suspects in civilian courts, one gets the impression that Obama is taking a big risk, and that civilian courts are either ill-equipped to handle such cases, or the rules governing the proceedings in those venues create too big an advantage for defendants.  Obama’s critics argue that military [...]

The Threatening Storm, Part II

Coming on the heels of the Senate’s passage of a bill authorizing President Obama to impose a new round of sanctions against Iran (a truly counterproductive policy), Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett diagnose a drift in Obama’s Iran policy that, sadly, rings true:

Obama has moved, during just one year in office, from relatively forward-leaning expressions [...]