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Op Eds
Op Eds
Mitt Romney’s Cutting-Edge Middle East Strategy
"On Iran, the current administration claims to have assembled all tools needed to keep the growing threat in check, but continues to try and reason with the regime. All three Republican candidates know that the Iranian regime must be considered as a threat to regional US and international security interests. All three want the regime to end as an ultimate solution to the menace. Mitt Romney is interested in how, with whom and when this can be accomplished. In his definitive Wall Street Journal article, the Governor underlined two pillars of his strategy. One certifies the regime is driving the Iranian nuclear threat. He wants the Iranian regime to disappear like Qaddafi’s. In addition to US efforts to contain the Iranian military and terror networks, the Governor sees the Iranian people, the so-called Green Revolution, and the secular democrats at its heart who are the regime’s primary opposition, as the real US partner in removing the regime.
On these three grounds the Romney agenda for the Middle East provides a strategically-advanced vision—counter radical jihadi ideology, partner with the Iranian people against the Iranian regime, and equip US defense with a vision that intercepts the threat rather than react to it." (Walid Phares, Op Ed, multiple media)
Jan 29, 2012, 16:28
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"PRAGUE’S HAVEL IS GONE WAITING FOR THE MIDDLE EASTERN HAVELS TO COME"
"It is important that this week’s departure of a great civil society leader, Vaclav Havel, serves as a reminder of his extraordinary achievements and that his name remains an inspiration to future leaders of Arab civil societies."
Dec 23, 2011, 13:52
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"Václav Havel inspired Mideast dissidents"
"we must also understand that it is the task of the Middle Eastern people to collectively reject the extremist ideology in order to achieve lasting freedom in their lands. The Central European Havel is gone, but his achievements will no doubt inspire the next Havels of the Middle East." (Walid Phares in National Review)
Dec 20, 2011, 21:00
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"Iran's MAD strategy has a strategic rationale"
"Iran wants to stockpile delivery systems that can be rapidly outfitted with nuclear warheads, so that the U.S. and its Western allies will not be able to destroy them before it is too late. The stakes would be too high to attack if Iran has both the bomb and the ability to use it anywhere." (Dr Walid Phares Op Ed)
Nov 6, 2011, 18:21
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"Muslims Against Jihad" a piece from 2007
An Op Ed published in the History News Network (from March 2007). " The History of dissidence within the Muslim world, particularly in modern time is rich and diverse. It is also full of drama and violence, particularly against the dissidents themselves. Since the mid 1920s, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the last Caliphate and with the rise of Salafism, joined in the 1970s by Khomeinism, dozens of intellectuals experienced harsh conditions and met tragic destinies as they rose to oppose fundamentalism and press for reforms. That history has yet to be written thoroughly and taught in the mainstream educational systems. High profile authors and intellectuals have spoken against authoritarianism and Islamism from the sub Indian continent to the sub Saharian desert." (We reproduce it to enrich the ongoing debate)
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Nov 6, 2011, 16:53
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