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Walk Like an Egyptian: The Egyptian Revolution and the Radicalization of the...
Egyptian Protesters with Army Soldiers (AFP Photo) As Egypt goes so goes the Arab World. Egypt is the leader of the Arab World, the largest country and the country with the most powerful military, a...
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The Beginning of Chaos in Egypt: Watching and Waiting as the Situation...
Battle Lines in Tahrir Square (Yanis Behrakis -Reuters via MSNBC) Today violent street clashes broke out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Following President Hosni Mubarak’s pledge not to run for the...
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Danger in the Arabian Gulf: The Fires of Protest Spread to Bahrain
Protesters attacked in Bahrain (AP Photo) It is weird when you see a place that you have been many times explode into massive protests, violence and potential revolution. That I have been to Bahrain...
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Padre Steve’s Primer on the Muddle East
“When you are up to your arse in alligators it is hard to remember that your mission is to drain the swamp.” Old British Colonial Saying During the dark days of World War Two when Field Marshal Erwin...
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Red Lines… Syria and Sarin and United States Military Intervention: A Warning...
Updated August 23rd 2013: Since this article was written back in April of this year the situation in Syria, not to mention the rest of the region has continued to get worse. This past week there...
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Padre Steve’s 2013 Down and Dirty Primer on the Muddle East
“When you are up to your arse in alligators it is hard to remember that your mission is to drain the swamp.” Old British Colonial Saying Note: This is an update to my 2011 Primer on the Muddle East...
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Looking Back at 30 Years of Commissioned Service
I was going to write about the situation in Syria tonight but that will wait until tomorrow because June 19th is the 30th anniversary of my commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army. That was a...
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All In or Stay the Hell Out: Syria, the United States NATO and the Middle...
The Balkans aren’t worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.” Otto Von Bismarck The terrible civil war in Syria appears to be reaching its crescendo as someone, probably the Assad Regime or...
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Syria: The History and the Really Hard Questions for All of Us
Today President Obama called on the U.S. Congress to take up and debate an authorization for the use of military force in Syria. From any moral viewpoint his words on the use of chemical weapons by...
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Syria: The History and the Really Hard Questions for All of Us
Today President Obama called on the U.S. Congress to take up and debate an authorization for the use of military force in Syria. From any moral viewpoint his words on the use of chemical weapons by...
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