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What Bush's Iraq War and Obama's Drone Strikes Have in Common   

The Atlantic online - 19 June, 2012
Author: Conor Friedersdorf

While debating America's drone strikes, the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan has been sketching his notion of the responsibilities presidents have to the United States. Opposition to the CIA's drone war "kind of assumes 9/11 didn't happen or couldn't happen again, and dismisses far too glibly the president's actual responsibility as commander-in-chief to counter these acts of mass terror," he writes. "If you accept that presidential responsibility, and you also realize that the blowback from trying to occupy whole Muslim countries will be more intense, then what is a president supposed to do?"
 
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/what-bushs-iraq-war-and-obamas-drone-strikes-have-in-common/258533/
Shaikh Zayed Book Award continues to drive interest for nominations
Source : Khaleej Times  
Date : 2013-06-19
An assembly of Arab novelists, literary figures and academics have already expressed their interest to participate in Shaikh Zayed Book Award's latest instalment, as the Award continues to drive interest...
Diabetes campaign at The Souq
Source : Khaleej Times  
Date : 2013-06-19
The HealthPlus and Aldar Properties have launched a joint diabetes awareness campaign at The Souq (the rebuilt Old Souq) for visitors and nearby residents....
Iran's foreign policy principles unchangeable: official
Source : Tehran Times  
Date : 2013-06-19
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi has said that the Islamic Republic’s principles of foreign policy are unchangeable....
Society helps 1,100 embrace Islam
Source : Khaleej Times  
Date : 2013-06-19
Over 20,000 residents of 200 nationalities have converted to Islam at the Islamic Information Centre of the Dubai government-run Dar Al Ber Society since its inception in 1993....
Etisalat launches security solution
Source : Khaleej Times  
Date : 2013-06-19
Etisalat, one of the leading telecom operators in the Middle East and Africa, on Tuesday launched a security solution to prevent cyber attacks through Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) management....
Saudi contractors delay 400 projects in Makkah
Source : Arab News  
Date : 2013-06-19
Around 400 infrastructure and service projects in Makkah are delayed, said an official at the Makkah Mayoralty. Several road construction projects, flood projects, works in public parks and gardens and...
Egypt distances itself from shura member's remarks
Source : Khaleej Times  
Date : 2013-06-19
Egypt is proud of its deep-rooted fraternal ties with the UAE and its people, a Foreign Ministry official of that country has said....
JIP corruption: 3 officials jailed, fined
Source : Arab News  
Date : 2013-06-19
Three Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP) officials were sentenced to jail terms and fines for falsely recording that malfunctioning containers at the port were in good working order. They had done...
ESB abuse is 'extortion'
Source : Arab News  
Date : 2013-06-19
With the July 3 amnesty deadline approaching, many sponsors are forcing workers to give up their end-of-service benefits in exchange for release letters....
'No MERS case in Jeddah'
Source : Arab News  
Date : 2013-06-19
A Jeddah health official rejected a report that a two-year-old boy in the city has fallen prey to the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS)....
Cut in Haj pilgrim numbers
Source : Oman Daily Observer  
Date : 2013-06-19
Oman Arabic, sister daily of the Observer, has learnt that the number of Omani pilgrims this year is expected to be cut in line with a decision by the Saudi...
Afghan progress
Source : The Peninsula  
Date : 2013-06-19
Yesterday was a day of action on the Afghan front. Not that everything is dormant in Afghanistan, where not a day passes without a blast or some fighting causing casualties....
Oman LNG, Opal seal training-for-jobs pact
Source : Oman Daily Observer  
Date : 2013-06-19
Applying its tried-and-tested paradigm for moving candidates out of the labour market and into long-term employment, Oman LNG has sealed a training-for-jobs pact with Opal to deliver management training for...
A disturbing opinion poll
Source : Saudi Gazette  
Date : 2013-06-19
Anew poll this week of the opinion Egyptians now have of their hard-won democracy ought to make all the country’s politicians sit up and take notice....
Stress on tourismStress on tourism
Source : Oman Tribune  
Date : 2013-06-19
The Human Development Report of Oman 2012 has touched upon a number of areas in the social, economic and other spheres....
Protest nations
Source : Khaleej Times  
Date : 2013-06-19
Is this decade going to be one of citizen activism? This is the question that comes to mind when one looks at the events that are transpiring around the world....
Afghanistan’s milestone
Source : Khaleej Times  
Date : 2013-06-19
In Afghanistan, momentous changes are taking place to gradually pave the way for the pullout of the Nato-led forces in 2014....
No headway to end Syrian conflict
Source : Gulf Today  
Date : 2013-06-19
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Puttin were staying in adjacent cottages as they attended the Group of Eight (G8) in Northern Ireland, but they could not be...
Majlis legal panel meets academics
Source : Oman Daily Observer  
Date : 2013-06-19
The Legislative and Legal Committee at the Majlis Ash'shura yesterday met with academics from the College of Law and the College of Commerce and Political Sciences at the Sultan Qaboos...
MoI mulls travel ban for traffic violators
Source : Kuwait Times  
Date : 2013-06-19
Interior Ministry's Assistant Undersecretary of Traffic Affairs Maj Gen Abdulfattah Al-Ali stressed yesterday on the necessity of activating travel bans against violators to force them to pay their traffic fines,...
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