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Is America’s Next Big Middle East War with Iran?

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Is America heading to war with Iran? If so, who would likely be our ally? At the American Conservative Pat Buchanan writes about a...

A 7th Century Struggle over the Rightful Heir

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Unlike Asian autocrats, who tended to be modernizers (like Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew), Arab autocrats tended to be predators “who used the conflict with...

Battle of Amirli

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By working in concert and with assistance from U.S. airstrikes, the Iraqi military, Shiite militiamen and Kurdish peshmerga forces have pushed ISIS back from Amirli, saving...

Can ISIS Continue to Win?

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In Iraq’s Sunni dominant North West, ISIS has made rapid gains while only fielding a combat force estimated at between 6,000 and 10,000 soldiers. It’s...

Sunnis/Shia: War and Bloodshed since the 7th Century

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Today in Iraq and Syria the world is facing a centuries old battle of Muhammadism.  Muhammadism is strictly a religious and not a nationalist...

Shiites and Sunni Warring since the 7th Century

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Here Tom Friedman does a nice job of laying out the problem of what happens when an outside country gets into a civil war....

An Isolationist Message?

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Bret Stephens, writing in the Wall Street Journal, labels Senator Paul an isolationist: “The junior senator from Kentucky may not know it yet, but...

Syria: Sunni vs. Alawite

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David Brooks in The New York Times writes of a wave of sectarian violence, the Syrian civil conflict, Sunni and Shiite power players, images of...

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