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rdless of the human cost. The atrocities at Houla merely raised the temperature of that dispute. In the days after the massacre, Russia's President Vladimir Putin made it clear to European counterparts that his opposition to foreign military intervention in Syria was as strong as ever. This has put Russia on

tary for an alliance with Russia to stand up to the U.S. pressure. China's political leadership, for the time being, remains skeptical, and so does Putin. But in Moscow, too, there's a pro-China EFTA00702013 lobby, and Western intervention in Syria could provide the catalyst for a strategic rebalan

mes against humanity, indeed near-genocide, that Vladimir Putin ordered in Chechnya at the turn of the cen

ibya. Kissinger lumped Libya in with Yemen, Somalia and northern Mali as a "blank space" on the map "denoting lawlessness." Yet political scientist Juan Cole, who recently visited Libya, where he expected a fair degree of chaos, reports that in Benghazi, Misrata and Tripoli, "there were no militiamen to

-year silence is a "disgrace," you should concede that it has been a lost opportunity for all of us. EFTA00831983 He Quotes Mussolini and Praises Putin Yet the Media Makes Excuses for Him and His Supporters Inline image 1 Trump's racism and xenophobia violates America's core beliefs — yet the medi

lliance with Anglo-Saxon Britain on racial grounds (much preferring it to the less white Italy), the only foreign leader Trump likes is the "white" Vladimir Putin. That he won the evangelical vote again in Nevada is helpful for us in seeing that American evangelicalism itself is in some part a form of white ma

e only foreign leader Trump likes is the "white" Vladimir Putin. That he won the evangelical vote again in

in was asked by a lady after the Constitutional Convention what sort of government the US had, he said, "A Republic, Madame, if you can keep it." As Juan Cole (who inspired this piece) asked, "You have to wonder if we can keep it." ****** WHY? EFTA00831986 The Gun Industry's Plan To Make It Easier To

's The Difference..=804, As such, the inspiration of that reference today for me is Joh= Feffer's recent article in the Huffington Post t=tled — Is Putin Really as Foolish as We Are'?. Because you would think that after its own disastrous nine year wa= that resulted in almost 15, 000 Soviet deaths an

re than 53,000 wounde=, then watching the United States and its allies make the same folly for e=ually ridiculous reasons, one would think that even Vladimir Putinife=99s might be reluctant to enter into another war not directly on Russia4,=804,s borders. But then Richard Nixon, another Cold=Warrior, as we

least according to rece=t reports. Except that the success that anti-Assad forces have had w=th anti-tank missiles helped persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to =ntervene on the side of the Syrian government to forestall checkmate and p=olong stalemate. Since Putin is Russian, chess has been the go-to me

Syria, in comparison to the blunders of the West, make th= Russian leader seem "a responsible statesman, to whom we turn in =esperation for help." Juan Cole, after dismissing the Obama admin=stration efforts as ineffectual, concludes that "Putin knows what =e wants and has an idea about how to achieve it

ger to work with America on missile defense and integration within the West. It also ignored that reset essentially undid the punishments accorded Vladimir Putin for his 2008 invasion of Georgia. Meanwhile, China is angry and confused that the U.S. suddenly warns it to behave in the Pacific, after turning a

entially undid the punishments accorded Vladimir Putin for his 2008 invasion of Georgia. Meanwhile, Chi

reset essentially undid the punishments accorded Vladimir Putin for his 2008 invasion of Georgia. Meanwhil

oli will, like the Havels of the Middle East, come to power as politicians. We haven't heard the last of the Middle East's millennial generation. Juan Cole is director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan and the author of "The New Arabs: How the Mill