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Traditionally, all the kings of Saudi Arabia have been sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, and they've gone from one son to the next.

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The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

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Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.

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Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

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Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.

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The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.

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Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.

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Faced with the crippling sanctions, Iran could simply decide it is paying too high a cost to pursue its nuclear program and could opt for negotiations and reconciliation with the United States and other members of the international community. This is clearly the preferred option of American leaders.

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A nuclear program has arguably worked as a deterrent for North Korea and other states - would Moammar Gadhafi have been deposed and summarily killed if Libya had had nuclear weapons? Iranians might not think so.

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Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the United States. But two planes don't even make a Caribbean charter airline, let alone an air force for a country at war.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 16th, 1973

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