Tag: Bashar Assad
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Sow the wind in Syria, reap the whirlwind in Turkey
For two and a half terms Erdogan and Abdullah Gul kept up a plausible manner: they were non ideological, moderate Muslims. Yes, there was an occasional skirmish on trifles like headscarves for…
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Mecca Summit: Peace initiative or one-upmanship
The Western media has been predicting the fall of Bashar al Assad for the past year. An externally induced civil war is on the cards but the collapse of the regime has…
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Great power berserk: Fair is foul, foul is fair
What is going on? A war against Al Qaeda in Af-Pak and a deliberate manufacture of just those elements in Syria? Has New Delhi forgotten its breast beating against cross-border terrorism in…
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Cool Syria to focus on Afghanistan in Chicago
Let me jump the gun on the global pundits. The great charge on Damascus is about to be called off, sorry toned down.