Ostensibly a NATO ally, Turkey increasingly aligns with – and behaves like – Russia and Iran. Westerners should stay away.
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Tag Archives: Hostages
A Wise, If Belated, Travel Ban
Better than never, albeit late: the U.S. finally bans civilian travel to North Korea.
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Iran’s Hostage Game Continues
Iranian hostage-taking targets British as well as American citizens, and it past time for both governments to respond.
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A British-Iranian Hostage
Iran’s hostage-taking business has diversified beyond the American market. The British are being “served” too.
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An Exercise In Leverage
A government that lies to its citizens is bad, but one that lies to itself is even worse.
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Cash For Hostages
Why does Iran keep seizing American hostages? Because it works.
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The Hostage In The White House
Iran has enough experience with hostages to exploit a president who is captive to his own ego and self-delusions.
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Planting The Seeds Of Future Kidnappings
The administration says it will not pay kidnappers, but hostages’ families may do so. To a terrorist banker, that’s just as good.
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Can We Sit Out A Gulf War?
The U.S. is the best-positioned major economy to withstand a cutoff of Mideast oil. This fact informs Trump’s Iran policy.
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