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America’s Impending Defeat in Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 11:42 am
By Barry Rubin It’s really pretty simple. The American people understandably don’t want to go to war with Syria, not to mention Syria’s patron of Iran and especially not to put into power the Muslim ...
The Truth About Syria 26 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
If you are interested in reading more about Syria, you're welcome to read my book The Truth About Syria online or download it for free WHY SYRIA MATTERS “It is my pleasure to meet with you in the new...
American Culture: How to Reconcile the Brutal and the Effete? 25 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
By Barry Rubin I’m deeply confused about American culture. Let me cite two incidents as examples and then talk about some attitudes I hear about from my son's reports on visits with friends. Perhaps ...
Al-Qaeda Battles Kurds in Syria 21 Aug 2013 | 11:29 am
Jerusalem Post, 16/8. Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq, threatened this week to send forces into northern Syria, to defend beleaguered Kurds there. In the...
Lost: Obama Middle East Policy, 2013-2016,(1) Why U.S. Policy Betrayed the Moderates 21 Aug 2013 | 11:08 am
By Barry Rubin In 1848, the new Communist movement issued a manifesto. It began with the opening line: “A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism.” For our purposes today, this threat ....
Dinner in New York; Breakfast in Tel Aviv 20 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
By Barry Rubin Around 10 p.m. in our New York Hotel room, I heard a strange voice and decided to investigate. It was actually a television monitor in the hallway showing the news. Much to my surprise...
THE MAIN KURDISH POLITICAL PARTIES IN IRAN, IRAQ, SYRIA, AND TURKEY: A RESEARCH GUIDE 19 Aug 2013 | 03:56 pm
Kurdistan is divided, and the Kurdish people are not united geographically. They are split among numerous political parties and institutions in several different countries. Various early attempts to b...
How Western Intellectual Values Have Gone Haywire 14 Aug 2013 | 07:18 pm
By Barry Rubin "First make sure you're right, then go ahead." --Davy Crockett, 1836 For almost two months I have been talking and traveling through America trying to understand the country. Soon I ...
Meet the New Mubarak 8 Aug 2013 | 03:08 pm
Jerusalem Post, 2/8/13 For many Egyptian supporters of the July 3 coup against the Muslim Brotherhood-led government, coup leader General Abd al-Fatah al-Sisi is a figure of veneration. Posters bearin...
Supporting the "Peace Process" and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: Misinformation 8 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
By Barry Rubin There's an Arab proverb that goes like this: When an enemy extends his hand to you cut it off. If you can't, kiss it. Who do you think is being classified as the cutting or the kissing...
