Posted on Mon, February 18, 2013 at 20:03 pm CET
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My Life’s Work: U.S. Foreign Policy Analysis

Part two of Barry Rubin’s life work…. Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Diplomacy • Politics • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Wed, February 13, 2013 at 22:33 pm CET
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State of the Union Address on Foreign Policy: Careful Phrasing Conceals Disasters

Think about the kind of mental construct that could produce this State of the Union address… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Obamaism • Politics • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Thu, January 10, 2013 at 20:44 pm CET
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Why the Current U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Doesn’t Make Sense and How to Fix It

Something very bad is happening with the U.S. foreign policy debate… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Liberalism • Obamaism • Politics • Security and Defense • United States of America 
Posted on Wed, January 25, 2012 at 19:19 pm CET
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Obama’s State of the Union Speech: My Response Discovers Some Curious Insights and Strange Formulations

In his State of the Union message, President Barack Obama began by wrapping himself in the flag, patriotism, and love of the armed forces while trying to highlight his foreign policy achievements… Continue reading

Topics: Afghanistan • Al-Qaeda • Arab Spring • Diplomacy • Iraq • Politics • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Mon, May 16, 2011 at 13:23 pm CEST
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The Foreign Policy Elite and Bureaucracy Starts Parting Ways with Obama

Perhaps the most important policymaking development of the last month has been President Barack Obama’s increasingly visible loss of… Continue reading

Topics: Leftist-Islamic Alliance • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Mon, May 9, 2011 at 16:20 pm CEST
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Clinton: Israel a Beacon of Hope and Freedom

Remarks by U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton on the occasion of Israel’s 63rd Independence Day, praising the Jewish state’s… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Israel • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, April 30, 2011 at 22:10 pm CEST
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Obama Foreign Policy Is Ignorant and Stupid Rather Than a Conspiracy

The most common question — or remark — that I get from readers is to say that I’m wrong to talk about how Western policymakers… Continue reading

Topics: Miscellaneous • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Thu, March 17, 2011 at 20:29 pm CET
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U.S. Sec State Hillary Clinton Says Leaving Post At End of 2012

In a CNN interview, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she will not serve in a second- term administration of President Barack Obama… Continue reading

Topics: The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Thu, March 17, 2011 at 00:02 am CET
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Crisis and Civil War in Libya

Here’s an (self)interview by Barry Rubin with Barry Rubin about what’s happening in Libya and U.S. foreign policy… Continue reading

Topics: Libya War • Maghreb • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, March 12, 2011 at 01:50 am CET
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U.S. Head of Intelligence James Clapper Should Be Fired

If the Obama Administration would listen more to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates it might salvage its foreign policy… Continue reading

Topics: China • Iran • Libya • Russian Federation • The Middle East • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, September 11, 2010 at 10:31 am CEST
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Americans Wake Up to Islamism

The furor over the Islamic center, variously called the Ground Zero Mosque, Cordoba House, and Park51, has large implications for the future of Islam in the United States and perhaps beyond. The debate is as unexpected as it is extraordinary. One would have thought that the event to… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Islamism • United States of America