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After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.
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Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.
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No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.
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The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
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With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.
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My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.
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In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.
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The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
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Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.
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To kill weeds, you must pull them up at the roots,
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No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
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Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.
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The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
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As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
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Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.
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Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.
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New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.
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Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
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As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.
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Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.
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Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.
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Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.
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For decades, Turkey was widely viewed as a reliable NATO ally: prickly at times, but safely in America's corner.
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The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.
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Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
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What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.
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Foreign interventions always end badly.
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No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
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The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.
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Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran.
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The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.
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Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.
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Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
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Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.
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As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.
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To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more!
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During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
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Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam.
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The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.
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Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.
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The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.
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If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.
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Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.
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In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.
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The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.
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It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.
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Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.
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Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453.
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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
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Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.
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As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.
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One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.
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Life is not shaped by what happens to you but by how you react to what happens to you.
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Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.
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Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.
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Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.
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A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.
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When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.
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Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.
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The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
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My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." In
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During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.
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Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made.
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Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
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Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.
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One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact.
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As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
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Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.
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Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities.
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Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
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After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
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Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
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In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.
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Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.
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