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of President Bashar al-Assad. "We're living at a crossroad," the Iranian foreign minister said. But he rejected former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's argument that Iran must become "a nation rather than a cause." He argued that, like America, Iran wanted to press both its values and its interests

accountable. I want to ask you about the turn in the road in modern history that you may be living through. One way that former Secretary of State Kissinger has described this is to say that for this "turn" to happen, Iran has to be "a nation and not a cause." It has to behave like a nation that has int

yptian president Mohamed Morsi made mistakes: giving himself immunity from prosecution, refusing to compromise with secular groups. EFTA00706415 Morsi committed mistakes, but they don't justify a military coup. And whatever mistakes were committed do not justify Western countries staying silent ab

ccess of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model. Some argue that former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi made mistakes: giving himself immunity from prosecution, refusing to compromise with secular groups. EFTA00706415 Morsi committed mistakes, but

America's surrogate, a democratic, dynamic naval power confronted by the Soviet land empire and garrison state. It is a discomforting analogy. When Henry Kissinger spoke of the Soviets as 'Sparta to our Athens,' a journalist asked 'Does that mean we're bound to lose?' During hot 'small' wars, debate turned to

state. It is a discomforting analogy. When Henry Kissinger spoke of the Soviets as 'Sparta to our Athens,'

timate electoral means, just as U.S. policy had demanded, and it was headed toward a second election that it probably would have lost. Although the Morsi government did use force against demonstrators, that was nothing compared with the military's killing of thousands and imprisonment of tens of t

tal crackdown on Egypt's Islamists is creating a new generation of terrorists. Whatever one thought of the government of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, and there was much to criticize, it came to office by fair and legitimate electoral means, just as U.S. policy had demanded, and it was headed tow

ip of U.S. foreign policy the best, according to Zoellick's mentor, former Secretary of State James Baker. "I know where I am; I think I know where Henry Kissinger and George Shultz are. I think we were all pretty darn successful secretaries of state," Baker said in a long interview Thursday with The Cable. "

Baker pointed to a recent New York Times column by Tom Friedman arguing that the most successful American leaders on the Middle East process were Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, and himself. In any case, Baker said, Zoellick "wasn't involved extensively" in making policy toward Israel. "He was not the lead

's scapegoat for the Sinai attack David Ignatius August 10 -- In firing Egypt's chief of intelligence for his alleged failings in Sinai, President Mohamed Morsi sacked a general who has won high marks from U.S., Israeli and European intelligence officials — and who, ironically, has been one of the Egyptian

ai. EFTA_R1_00537930 EFTA02029049 This week's shuffle is bound to raise concerns among U.S. and Israeli officials about the security policies of Morsi's government and its seemingly mutual self-protection pact with the Egyptian generals who still hold considerable power through the Supreme Counci

rol agreement negotiated during the height of détente in the 1970s escaped the critical eye of the hawkish Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), who forced Henry Kissinger to renegotiate, reconsider and even abrogate various provisions of his contemplated agreements. Two presidents, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon,

sh Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), who forced Henry Kissinger to renegotiate, reconsider and even abrogate var

d on religion Two articles approved on Sunday would expand the role of the military, which installed the current interim government after removing Morsi, in Egypt's politics. Photo: AP Washington: Egypt's constitutional panel approved an amended charter, clearing a key hurdle in the military-backed

titution marked a milestone in the government's so-called road map to restoring democratic rule following the military's July 3 ouster of President Mohamed Morsi. His overthrow was followed by the suspension of the old charter, which, while approved in a referendum, fueled deadly protests that encouraged the

re Management University and Copenhagen Business School. Anicle 2. The Washington Post Putin's Ukraine gambit Charles Krauthammer EFTA00684331 Henry Kissinger once pointed out that since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year. All undone, of course, by the collapse

e to Kiev: We can shut down your agricultural exports today, your natural gas supplies tomorrow. We can make you broke and we can make you freeze. Kissinger once also said, "In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power." Either Ukraine will fall to Russian hegemony or finall

were won not by liberal activists (who were hopelessly divided into a myriad of Pythonesque parties) but by Muhammad Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. Mr Morsi treated democracy as a winner-takes-all system, packing the state with Brothers, granting himself almost unlimited powers and creating an upper hou

live and throw garbage in everyone else's backyard. The prospects generally lack the public presence and star power of most Foggy Bottom occupants--Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and Condi Rice, for example. And they certainly don't rival Hillary Clinton, who is determined both to stay until January and not be

star power of most Foggy Bottom occupants--Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and Condi Rice, for example. And

fication was a possibility, the organization nominated a second candidate, Muhammad Morsi. A longtime member of the Brotherhood's leadership ranks, Morsi emerged as one of the public faces of the organization after the revolution as head of the Freedom and Justice Party. While he doesn't have nearly

ne in emergency talks with his Soviet counterpart. The risk of war passed despite Beijing's provocative rhetoric, but Chinese bitterness did not—as Henry Kissinger would learn during his first meeting with Deng Xiaoping in 1974, when the topic of a U.S.-Soviet arms summit in Vladivostok prompted the future Chi

hetoric, but Chinese bitterness did not—as Henry Kissinger would learn during his first meeting with Deng X

y takeover as a coup, security officials said. Police abuses and politicized prosecutions are hardly new in Egypt, and they did not stop under Mr. Morsi. But since the military takeover last month, some rights activists say, the authorities are acting with a sense of impunity exceeding even the per

no other option than to seek innovative ways to decrease defense costs without losing deterrent power and risking national EFTA00712959 security. Henry Kissinger once argued that "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously." The future of American deterrence will be connected to affordability. A

risking national EFTA00712959 security. Henry Kissinger once argued that "The absence of alternatives cl

-- A new reality and an alternative reality are shaping up in Egypt. President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood appear firmly in control . Morsi seized on the killing of 16 Egyptian soldiers in the EFTA00712943 Sinai early this month — an embarrassment for the military and particularly the

the parties to something like binding arbitration, stop speaking about psychological breakthrough, and start implementing American policy—more Dr. Kissinger, less Dr. Phil. The breakdown Kerry described, after all, is not in actual negotiations but in a contrived show of reciprocity that masks how negot

the way it is being fed by various regional and international powers. I am not making this up. I ave actually heard people say that if we had left Morsi on his seat, swallowed our tongues and did not revolt against Brotherhood rule, we would have averted the evils of terrorism that have been inflict