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Why does the international community feel the need to handle Abu Mazen with kid gloves and doesn't this send the wrong signal and essentially legitimizes Abu Mazen, emboldens his action to continue the acts of terror and this incitement…
If our goal is to limit Iranian influence and defeat ISIS, strengthening the Peshmerga is the logical step, and we should take it.
One of the benefits of actually arming rebel forces is that we would greater influence over both those groups and others who are also arming them.
The continuation of the conflict is itself a threat to U.S. interests and U.S. allies.
In my view, the answer to those questions is yes because otherwise what we face in Syria is an Iranian victory.
Syria's civil war is now a proxy war, due to the introduction of Iranian and Hezbollah troops, and due to the massive refugee flows it is now a source of regional instability.
Should we prevail and the Assad regime be replaced by a Sunni regime oriented towards Syria's Sunni neighbors like Jordan and Turkey, it is a huge defeat for Iran and Hezbollah and Russia.
More charges have been filed for the crime of insulting the President in the less than 1 year of Mohammad Morsi's rule than since 1892.
Freedom of assembly, I'll give another example, is very much under threat under new laws that have been proposed.
Freedom of assembly... is very much under threat under new laws that have been proposed.