Category: Middle East

Don’t Bashar Assad

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Gary Scarrabelotti

Stirring the Islamic pot a rash policy when borders are open.

By Gary Scarrabelotti

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Collateral damage on the democracy crusade

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Gary Scarrabelotti

Middle Eastern Christian communities pincered between the West’s pro-democracy campaign and the Arab Spring.

The Crushing of Middle Eastern Christianity | by Richard L. Russell | The National Interest | May 10, 2013

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Alarums without awakenings

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“Aussies” make war on “our kind of people” – and on us.

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Containing the Islamist Revolution

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Gary Scarrabelotti

The next American president would be naïve to think that the uprisings sweeping the Middle East will be good for America. It’s time to retrench and protect U.S. interests from the Islamist tidal wave.

By Ephraim Sneh | Foreign Policy | June 28, 2012

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Paradigm shift

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How Bob Carr dropped a bombshell on my breakfast table.

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