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loved America as much as Americans like to think. In the Eisenhower era, to take one period now seen in rosy hues, Latin mobs pelted Vice President Richard Nixon's motorcade with stones, shouting, "Out, dog! We won't forget Guatemala!" Angry Japanese students protested American "imperialism," forcing Presid

nds to the legitimate rights of both sides, rather than making this impossible, as the Israeli approach does. Rami G. Khouri is Editor-at-large of The Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon. A

nd, for most U.S. presidents -- Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush being the exceptions -- Syria has served as a kind of unholy diplomatic grail. Since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, U.S. policymakers had viewed the Assads as pragmatists capable of facilitating or blocking U.S. policy in Lebanon and the Arab-I

r Scholars. His book, Can America Have Another Great President?, will be published in 2012. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030076 --- PAGE BREAK --- 18 Article 5. The Daily Star Syria fortifies Obama in his indecision Michael Young 12 May -- The New York Times gave readers a double-whammy of Syrian statements on Tuesday. Its

several of his major cities. The regime's behavior is a daily insult to Syrians, one they will not readily forget. Michael Young is opinion editor of THE DAILY STAR and author of "The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle" (Simon & Schuster), listed as one of the 10 notable bo

eign Relations, was a deputy national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031838 --- PAGE BREAK --- 6 Article 2. The Daily Star A democratic Arab world would welcome peace with Israel Hamid Alkifaey One could reasonably argue that the golden opportunity for peace in the Middle

ideological crusade," the United States would do better, Kissinger suggests, to work with China to build a new "Pacific Community." Four decades ago, Richard Nixon grasped sooner than most the huge potential of China. "Well," he mused, "you can just stop and think of what could happen if anybody with a decent sy