Larry Haas – Page 27

With the United States understandably focused on Islamist threats to the civilized world, Russia’s Vladimir Putin continues to whittle away at the post-Cold War architecture of global relations by ignoring his commitment to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and boosting support for Russian-backed rebels. Putin’s efforts to undermine Ukraine, coming on top of his annexation of Crimea …

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A Challenge to Modernity

January 13, 2015

U.S. News & World Report

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist,” German pastor Martin Niemöller famously observed about his nation’s intellectuals during the Nazi rise to power. “Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Trade …

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CIA report encourages terrorists, makes allies reluctant to help

December 18, 2014

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON – Though they preside over the world’s most important nation, our leaders in Washington can be startlingly oblivious to the audiences beyond our shores that watch and listen closely to whatever we say or do. That’s the only rational explanation for why – 13 years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 – …

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The Last Line of Defense

December 16, 2014

U.S. News & World Report

As talks between U.S.-led global negotiators and Iran over its nuclear program resume this week in Geneva, the most welcome shift on the Iranian nuclear front may be occurring thousands of miles away in Washington. There, in the aftermath of November’s congressional elections that reflected a broad public repudiation of President Barack Obama, both parties …

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When Interests Clash

December 2, 2014

U.S. News & World Report

The events of recent days in Egypt remind us that U.S. foreign policy is inherently complicated, that our global priorities often clash and that, in some cases, the wisest choice is far from the most morally satisfying. In Egypt, the United States faces a clash between two key priorities – our long-term support for freedom …

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A Deal With Two Devils

November 18, 2014

U.S. News & World Report

Nothing better showcases Washington’s confusion over foreign policy than the idea that – as part of a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal – Iran would ship much or all of its enriched uranium to Russia, and Russia would then process it for Iranian civilian usage. Were the U.S.-led “P5+1” negotiators (the five permanent U.N. Security Council members …

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3 Lessons From the Fall of the Berlin Wall

November 7, 2014

U.S. News & World Report

A quarter-century ago this month, East Germany’s communist leaders announced they were opening the Berlin Wall in an act that, as much as anything else during that momentous year, symbolized the Cold War’s end. The anniversary is timely, for it provides history lessons that seem particularly relevant at a time when America is re-thinking its …

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