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of Putin's military maneuvers in Ukraine used different, but no less ominous, historical analogies. Some compared the arrival of Russian troops in Simferopol to the way that the Kremlin, in 2008, took advantage of Georgia's reckless bid to retake South Ossetia and then muscled its tiny neighbor, eventual
ago. But Obama's er jection of U.S. military involvement in Syria's civil war, in which 140,000 people have died since he first called on President Bashar al-Assad to step down, is the leading example of his second term. So, too, is the Pentagon budget proposal outlined this past week that would cut the size o
. EFTA00705926 At a G-8 meeting the following year in Northern Ireland, Obama and Putin met and made no headway toward resolving differences over Assad's leadership of Syria. The two exchanged an awkward back-and-forth over Putin's passion for martial arts before the Russian leader summed up the m
st World War, forcing her to flee with them by train ahead of the advancing German army. They ended up some 1,500 miles south, in the Crimean city of Simferopol. Initially under czarist rule, then the Bolsheviks and from late 1917 until the end of the war under the Germans, they had to deal with cold, damp an
e deal with Syria’s then-dying dictator, Hafez al-Assad, a few months earlier. Yet these three dedicated
st World War, forcing her to flee with them by train ahead of the advancing German army. They ended up some 1,500 miles south, in the Crimean city of Simferopol. Initially under czarist rule, then the Bolsheviks and from late 1917 until the end of the war under the Germans, they had to deal with cold, damp an
e deal with Syria’s then-dying dictator, Hafez al-Assad, a few months earlier. Yet these three dedicated
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Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bill Clinton
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Damascus
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Hosni Mubarak
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Cairo
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Yemen
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Saddam Hussein
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Marc Rich
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Jerusalem
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Vladimir Putin
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Fatah
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West Bank
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Michael Cohen
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