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to defend liberty after US withdrawal from Vietnam. Ronald Reagan, whose fans credit him with having disarmed the "Evil Empire," sent Marines into Lebanon, and brought them home again after 241 soldiers died in the bombing of the USS Cole. Otherwise, Reagan only captured tiny Grenada in the name of li
ke the Europeans, he spent years watching the wars of succession in Yugoslavia until he ordered the bombing of the troops of then Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. Even George W. Bush, who, at least during his first term, was convinced that the United States had to defend freedom and democracy, with military
olumnist Sarkis Naoum told Reuters. "We had a war that went on for 15 years, envoys would meet but nothing would happen," Naoum said, referring to Lebanon's own 1975-1990 civil war. Even if the parties agree in Geneva, analysts say, they would need to convince rebel armed groups on the ground, who ha
lin Wall in 1989, America aimed at a "new world order." There was to be no place, at least in theory, for renegade dictators like Saddam Hussein or Slobodan Milosevic. After 9/11, the U.S. declared a "war on terror" and led an international effort to stop Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and Islamist jihadists. Despite
eylaz, an Iranian analyst cited by the Journal, remarked, "Iran's geopolitical policies have failed. We have lost Hamas, overstretched Hezbollah in Lebanon, and now have al Qaeda spilling from Syria to Iraq." Iran benefits most, so the doves appear to reason, when the Sunnis are not being driven into
ometimes successfully, sometimes not so much-has gone to war or at least gone after the likes of Moammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Slobodan Milosevic, Ho Chi Minh, Manuel Noriega, Kim II- sung, and the Taliban. Like it or not, only the United States can prevent the theocracy in Iran from acquiring
he just might rock our world. Quran is helping to coordinate a raft of Palestinian youth organizations—located in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria—all united around one goal: to create a Palestinian Tahrir Square. They organized the unity march that helped pressure Fatah and Hamas to r
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023534 →ght strategy. They’ve been studying the civil rights movement and Gandhi’s struggle against the British and the movement that peacefully brought down Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia. No one wants a second intifada, he insisted. “It hurt us much more than the Israelis.” When I asked Quran what his movement believes, I e
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023535 →Entities connected to both Lebanon and Slobodan Milosevic

Barack Obama
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Bashar al-Assad
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Bill Clinton
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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Damascus
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Middle East
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Jerusalem
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Vladimir Putin
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Yemen
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Marc Rich
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Saddam Hussein
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Joe Biden
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Cairo
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Hosni Mubarak
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Tunisia
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