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...United States allows Islamic extremism to go unchecked, another world war could break out, said General John Abizaid—the top U.S. commander in the Middle East??at the Institute of Politics last Friday...
...faiths that claim the prophet Abraham as a forebear will have a reason to walk together in the Middle East.On Tuesday, delegates from 10 countries, led by William L. Ury, director of the Harvard Global Negotiation Project (GNP), concluded a two-week tour of some of the Middle East??s most ancient and holy sites. The tour participants were looking to advance plans for a path by which future tourists might follow the footsteps of Abraham—the father of monotheism who is claimed as an ancestor by Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Baha’i.The Abraham...
...greater share of our party’s political capital than neoconservatives, and no constituency has had worse results (politically and practically) to show for it. Neocons claim that the Iraq war would have been successful if executed more competently, but nation-building—particularly in the Middle East??is a tall order regardless of leadership. I don’t mean to imply that Republicans should become completely isolationist, but a corrective shift in that direction would be appropriate. On a related note, Republicans should take greater care to reconcile support for intelligence and defense operations...
...When the research of each scientist was uncovered as fraudulent, it was a blow not just to the field in which his work was conducted, not just to the institution he was affiliated, but to the collective national egos of China and South Korea. Many scholars have blamed the East??s Confucian philosophical grounding, with proverbs such as “Scholars are respected above all,” for its societies’ distorted perception of scientists. Such a maxim is alien to the Western tradition, but the cartoonish quality that our society imposes on scientists...
...reflects the fact that Iran is “not an advanced democracy.” According to Ebadi, these laws are not reflective of Islam but rather of a “patriarchal and wrong interpretation of Islam.” “If you go further east??Malaysia, Indonesia—the veil is not mandatory and people there are able to live more comfortable and free lives,” Ebadi said. Ebadi expressed faith that the Iranian people will find their own solutions to the country’s problems. Despite Iran?...