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Seapower critical to security and freedom
It was three short months ago in this column wherein you read that shortsighted dimwits in Washington were working themselves up into a lather to reduce the Department of Defense budget by cutting deeply into the expeditionary warfighting capability of...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Bahrain, Cruises, Syria, Yemen
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To not respond would scar our nation's soul
Everyone knows someone like Muammar Gaddafi; he’s the guy who always gets a little too liquored up and starts picking fights. Everyone usually ignores him, but occasionally he goes too far and someone will give him a whooping. Usually, guys like...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Crime, Law and Justice, Bombings, Olympic Games
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U.S. decries Russia weapons sale to Syria
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday condemned Russia's delivery of advanced antiship missiles to Syria and its buildup of warships in the eastern Mediterranean, arguing that the Kremlin's escalating support for its longtime ally in...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Russia, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Rebellions, Moscow (Russia)
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Pink line over Damascus
WASHINGTON — You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Barack Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked...Tags: Bashar Assad, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Weaponry, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Iran
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The president's walk-back: A pink line over Damascus?
WASHINGTON - You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to The New...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Weaponry, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Iran
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Options for action in Syria
Outrage. That's what we should feel over the Syrian government's slaughter of more than 70,000 of its own people and its use of chemical weapons. And outrage is what we should feel over the international community's total impotence. Despite nearly...Tags: Bashar Assad, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Iran's Nuclear Program, Interior Policy, Weaponry
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Tilting Syria
President Barack Obama painted himself into a corner last summer when he said Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against rebel forces would be a "red line for us." Now there's evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria,...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Weaponry, Central Intelligence Agency, Martin Dempsey, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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Stay out of Syria
With the Iraq War behind us and our departure from Afghanistan underway, the United States could be entering a well-earned respite from fighting. But even before peace can take hold, hawks are singing the old country song: "I've enjoyed as much of this as...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Iraq War (2003-2011), U.S. Military, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Weaponry
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Syria is still not our fight
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is right to resist the mounting pressure for military intervention in Syria. Action by U.S. forces may or may not make the situation better -- but certainly could make things worse. This assessment could change, of course....
Tags: Bashar Assad, Russia, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Rebellions, Weaponry
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Obama must find the best bad option in Syria
Having vowed that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would cross a U.S. "red line" and provoke a strong American response "with enormous consequences," President Barack Obama now finds himself under increasing pressure to act, following reports by U.S....Tags: Bashar Assad, World War I (1914-1918), U.S. Military, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Weaponry
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COLUMN: Inching closer to entanglement in Syria
The White House finally made it official last week: Yes, the civil war in Syria is a slippery slope, and yes, we’re on it. Nobody in the Obama administration actually used those words, of course. But if you paid attention to what officials said,...Tags: Bashar Assad, Saudi Arabia, John McCain, Libyan Civil War (2011), Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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McManus: Inching closer to entanglement in Syria
The White House finally made it official last week: Yes, the civil war in Syria is a slippery slope, and yes, we're on it. Nobody in the Obama administration actually used those words, of course. But if you paid attention to what officials said, it...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, John McCain, Libyan Civil War (2011), Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Mar 31, 2011
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May 12, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 15, 2013
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Apr 14, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
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