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military/security companies in state courts "because the comprehensive regulatory scheme enacted by Congress and the President grant military contractors like Blackwater immunity from state-court litigation." (pp. 234-235, Blackwater). (Author Ken Davis writes) "The four men had...

40 meant that Turkey, controlling the Bosporus, had to be kept in the American bloc. Syria and Iraq shifted policies in the late 1950s and by the mid-1960s had been armed by the Soviets. This made Turkey's position precarious: If the Soviets pressed from the north while Syria an...

everyday life. In this intense and quasi-fluid state, saintly priests slip seamlessly into sexual predation; an ecstatic Jewish Orthodox fundamentalist shoots 29 praying Moslems in a cave near Abraham’s burial plot for Sarah in Hebron; what were lovingly mystical, Jelaluddin Rumi...

before they set off at marine base Camp Fallujah. But the men kept their distance from the leathernecks. Had they spoken to the marines, the Blackwater team might have learned that the Americans were already in the midst of a major offensive meant to assert control over the incre...

our age, small-sized problems were spilling rapidly into crises of strategy. One hot battlefield instant - an explosion under an armorless truck, say - could freeze the operations of a billion-dollar division. Nearly everyone begins to ask, sometimes out loud: Why did that happen...

be willing to act.”© This is as true for nations as it is for each of us. We must be willing to act. It’s easy to be sympathetic to the desire for less action. Nothing we’ve done in recent years seems to be working. But, as we'll see, that’s because we've been using the wrong too...

29 run they’re doing better than the United States without having these Western institutions. The real challenge is the long-run sustainability of that system, or of the two systems. And looking at that in the long- run, I would still bet on the West, with its rule of law and sy...

…legations to meet in secret consumed by turmoil and conflict, it’s to thrash out their differences. al-Qaeda, so-called Islamic State, Iraq, As a journalist covering these Syria and Libya that are dominating extraordinary events for The Daily the headlines, not the peace process....

…eded to tackle a more urgent threat. It again involved an enemy state trying to get nuclear weapons. But not Syria. The Islamic theocracy of Iran. We’d been aware for a number of years about Iranian efforts to go nuclear. The Mossad had notched up a series of successes in delayi...

…he day of Arik’s visit. We would later learn this was a deliberate campaign, waged with guns and grenades, by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Fatah offshoot Tanzim, and Arafat’s own police force. The media had changed, too, in the 13 years since the first intifada, with the rise of...

… in other Nusayri rituals, namely Ali, Muhammad, and Salman al-Farisi (the Persian companion of Muhammad who in several Islamic traditions forms a link between the Arabs and the wisdom of ancient Persia). Nusayri rituals, performed in private homes or out-of- the-way places, incl...

…nal interpretation of Islam. The AKP has promoted socially conservative values, such as the need for women to wear the Islamic headscarf and a disdain for alcohol. Turkish bureaucrats and businesspeople complain that embracing these practices to prove that one is a “good Muslim”...

…as it is. Only the most flimsy efforts have been made, insufficient to test the waters. Those waters are troubled. The Islamic Republic has not recovered from its convulsion of 2009. It is sickly, consumed by hypocrisy as it cheers on some brave Arabs (but not those in Syria) wh...

…nalism, but fundamentalist Islam: Hamas in Gaza, which opposed Israel’s presence on any part of “Muslim Palestine,” and Islamic Jihad on the West Bank. And in Lebanon, we were confronting the Iranian-backed Shi’ ite militia fighters of Hizbollah. Each of us in the small group on...

Tunisia and certain other countries have another sense for the Iranian nation.... This is the same as 'Islamic Awakening,' which is the result of the victory of the big revolution of the Iranian nation," said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran also broadcast speeches by Hezbollah's le...