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A.J. Caschetta category.

by A.J. Caschetta
Mossadegh with supporters in Tehran, 1951
Turning charismatic autocrats into icons of progress is one of the more annoying habits of the left. Che Guevara should be remembered as a common murderer. Instead he has been turned into a cool campus symbol of opposition to capitalism.
While
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Posted on 07/03/2019 10:21 AM by A.J. Caschetta

by A.J. Caschetta
The Democrats’ outrage over Gina Haspel’s candidacy for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is based on three erroneous assumptions: first, the belief that the CIA engaged in a thinly-veiled torture program against Al-Qaeda detainees; second, the belief that the program
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Posted on 05/16/2018 6:42 AM by A.J. Caschetta

President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, March 2017.
By A.J. Caschetta
There's a new political order taking shape in the Middle East, and it's shaking up the academic order that has dominated Middle East studies for over three decades. With Iran, Qatar, Turkey, and
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Posted on 03/19/2018 3:28 PM by A.J. Caschetta

by A.J. Caschetta
The Taylor Force Act (TFA) passed the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously on Wednesday and is expected to pass the full house with wide bipartisan support. The Taylor Force Act marks a noble and long overdue departure from the “anything goes” attitude
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Posted on 11/17/2017 5:22 AM by A.J. Caschetta

by A.J. Caschetta
In spite of recent polls indicating that ordinary Palestinians increasingly recognize that Israel is here to stay, the rejectionist Palestinian leadership remains the most formidable obstacle to a peace agreement with the Jewish state. But running a close second place is the
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Posted on 09/12/2017 1:29 PM by A.J. Caschetta

by A.J. Caschetta
In an era when saying the wrong thing, deemed offensive by someone, can end a career, social justice warriors always seem to get a pass. Few have received more than Linda Sarsour, a Muslim self-styled “feminist” who supports a political system that systematically represses women,
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Posted on 06/01/2017 5:18 AM by A.J. Caschetta
by A.J. Caschetta
The 1,773 fires that ravaged Israel in November may or may not have been started by terrorists, but the arrests of dozens of suspects have inspired pundits to speculate about “arson terrorism” as the latest stage in the evolution of jihadist tactics.
If fires that destroyed
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Posted on 12/14/2016 8:06 AM by A.J. Caschetta