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Surveillance Is Too Important to Be Left to the Generals

Surveillance Is Too Important to Be Left to the Generals
With each revelation of the National Security Agency’s vast surveillance network, one thing is becoming clear: The generals charged with designing and managing the agency's initiatives—NSA Director Keith Alexander and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper—have been unable or unwilling to call attention to critical program details with broad societal implications. The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that…
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Caught in the Cross Fire: Turkey and Syria

Caught in the Cross Fire: Turkey and Syria
Turkey finds itself in the crossfire of an international disaster that seems to be tangling the leadership of the AKP party and Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) into a knot it cannot seem to get out of. With the start of Syrian Civil War on the 15th of March 2011, the international community and in particular…
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JFK-style Diplomacy is What's Needed for Iran

JFK-style Diplomacy is What's Needed for Iran
This Friday marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s tragic assassination. As we reflect on how that day changes America, it is also important to recognize Kennedy’s contributions to America’s foreign policy. For one, Kennedy’s expert handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis should serve as a lesson to our lawmakers today—in particular, as they deal with…
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US handling of the Syrian Crisis: What Will Our Legacy Be?

US handling of the Syrian Crisis: What Will Our Legacy Be?
There has been, over the past quarter century, a certain script that the prelude to America’s use of force has adhered to. There is identification of the crisis situation; a call for support from the “international community”; gestures of support from allies; and a speech from the Oval Office announcing the actions that have been…
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Boehner's immigration bill halt will hurt GOP for decades

Boehner's immigration bill halt will hurt GOP for decades
House Speaker John Boehner might go down in history as the next Abraham Lincoln. Or at least Lyndon Johnson. But not in the way he might wish. Like those illustrious presidents, Boehner might have just made a decision that has scuttled his party's chances for decades to come. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, chose to emancipate the country's slaves, handing the…
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Why Did We Suspend Aid to Egypt, Again?

Why Did We Suspend Aid to Egypt, Again?
John Kerry felt more threatened by his own administration's partial aid "cut" to Egypt than Egypt's generals did. Or so it seemed. In a visit to Cairo on November 3, America's top diplomat insisted that the "aid issue is a very small issue," as if to tell Egyptians not to worry—that it was something the U.S. had to do…
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