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is Jorge Benitez Article 7. NYT No More Industrial Revolutions? Thomas B. Edsall Anicic I. NYT The New Egypt Roger Cohen October 15, 2012 -- Cairo — The fighting began in mid-afternoon on Talaat Harb Street, close to Tahrir Square. I watched as young men, their EFTA00700340 faces bloodied, w
hen he should have also been organizing an air campaign. That's what did the job in Bosnia, Kosovo and even Libya, where the objective was to oust Moammar Gaddafi and head off a bloodbath. It worked. Just keeping Assad's airplanes on the ground would have shown the Syrian military that it was saluting the wro
ng with Gaza, in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Palestinians view them as the key territorial elements of their future state. In a June 2009 address in Cairo<http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarlcs-president-cairo-university- 6-04-09>, a speech that asked for a "new beginning" with the Islamic
e East in his first year in office, with the rise of Islamist governments and the widening repercussions of civil revolt. After Obama helped topple Moammar Gaddafi<http://www.washingtonpost.corn/wp- dynkontent/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030905672.html> in Libya in 2011, many in the region wondered when he would e
plied to the Middle East for so long that nothing, it seems — no amount of extraordinary change — can silence them. After the successful revolts in Cairo and Tunis, the slanders abated. Soon, however, the old messages depicting the Middle East as extreme, fundamentalist, and hostile to democracy bega
nd Syria. In both cases, the insurgents are seen in the West as the "good guys," battling corrupt, autocratic leaders. Personally, I wish that both Moammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad would give up power tomorrow. But that doesn't seem in the cards: Both leaders have shown they're willing to kill thousands of
on to give up on the Arab Spring Juan Cole 28 June -- Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by massive crowds of youths mobilizing in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to Egypt's dreary police state. We watched transfixed as a movement first ignited in Tunisia spread from one part
f international terrorism. In response, the U.S.-sometimes 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 St
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bashar al-Assad
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Hosni Mubarak
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Marc Rich
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Bill Clinton
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Saddam Hussein
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Mahmoud Abbas
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