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Qaddafi’s downfall might just be the necessary factor that will embolden the protesters and offer them a sizeable advantage. This is not naïve or farfetched. After all

Article 4. Foreign Policy Syria: Too Big to Fail? Aaron David Miller MAY 12, 2011 -- If you're a bit confused about U.S. President Barack Obama's passivity in the face of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad's brutal repression of domestic opposition, don't be. Syria isn't Libya...

20 A myth quickly arose that the women in the administration—Clinton, U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, and national-security aide Samantha Power, whose Pulitzer Prize—winning book on genocide was influential in Obama’s thinking—drove the debate. “The idea that the girls pushed the bo...

Article 4. Vanity Fair Hillary Clinton - Woman of the World Jonathan Alter June 2011 -- It was four a.m. when Hillary Clinton’s plane touched down at Andrews Air Force Base, and by midmorning she was in the Oval Office conferring with President Obama. The night before, as her...

…According to Cathy, “In the early 1980s, my base programming was instilled at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, by U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Michael Aquino. He holds a Top Secret clearance in the Defense Intelligence Agency’ s Psychological Warfare Division (PSYOP). He is a professed neo-Nazi...

…o, that would have seemed a surprising conclusion. Supporters of “liberal interventionism”’ hailed the decision to bomb Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in Libya as evidence of a longed-for new era, in which dictators can no longer feel free to massacre their own people. However a weste...

…ent, on a former RAF base not far from Lod airport. On the First of April 1971, I was promoted from major to lieutenant-colonel, and given the assignment which, more than any other, I’d hoped for when I returned to the army. I became the commander of Sayeret Matkal. 110 HOUSE_O...

…fore scientists began to focus on the role that emotions can play in healing. During the Second World War, Lieu- tenant Colonel Henry Beecher—who went on to become the first chairman of the anesthesia department at Massachu- setts General Hospital—attempted to assess the degree t...

Now that we were in a fight —the single fiercest battle in Israel’s advance across the Sinai — Lieutenant-Colonel Eitan reacted swiftly. Standing tall amid the shellfire and the flames, he radioed for supporting fire, only to be told that none of our artillery batteries was withi...

… sentenced to life imprisonment. © Looking at his watch, Cherkashin politely excused himself. I subsequently spoke to Colonel Oleg Nechiporenko, who had been a foreign intelligence officer in the KGB between 1958 and 1985 and continued his intelligence work until recently as ch...

…bysit the impetuous Flynn, prone to antagonizing almost everyone else in the national security community. (Flynn was “a colonel in a general’s uniform,” according to one senior intelligence figure.) Flynn, like everyone around Trump, was besotted by the otherworldly sense of opp...

…. With the date getting closer, he brought along his entire staff. When I raised my concern about the weight problem, a colonel from his personnel section said: “Why not build a lightweight rickshaw, small enough to get in the door of the helicopter, but which can carry all or mo...

…th of innocent Jews was a foreseen consequence of Stangl’s desire for power, not his direct goal. Eichmann, Lieutenant Colonel in the Nazi regime, was considered one of the central architects of the Final Solution, the master plan for the extermination of Jews. Eichmann denied J...

…s best placed moles in the Russian intelligence service. This surreptitious source was Alexander Poteyev, a 54-year old colonel in the SVR, which was the successor agency to the First Chief Directorate of the KGB. While the FSB took over the KGB’s domestic role in December 1991,...

…iles away. And even if we could take out the terrorists, we were almost certain to face opposition from the former army colonel who ruled Libya, Mummer Ghaddafy. The chance of success seemed slim, the risks enormous. Soon, however, Kuti’s question ceased to matter. Later Sunday...