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Re: Court rules French have to give up holiday (Boston Globe/AP 5/3/05) http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/05/03/court_rules_french_have_to_give_up_holiday/ To the Editors: Two years after the French government proposed their plan, a Fre… more »

Kyrgyzstan Gov't Collapses After Protest http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=3&u=/ap/20050324/ap_on_re_eu/kyrgyzstan&sid=84439559 I'm pretty good at geography and I couldn't show you Kyrgyzstan on a map. Still, the news of a popular… more »

[This is a piece I wrote for GlobalPolitican.com, an excellent foregin policy and international affairs web site run by my friend David Storobin.] On www.globalpolitician.com, David Storobin (whom I regard very highly as an international political ana… more »

Spain Muslims Issue Fatwa Against Bin Laden (AP, 3/10/05) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=5&u=/ap/20050310/ap_on_re_eu/spain_bombings_fatwa A Spanish Muslim cleric has issued a fatwa (Dictionary.com: "… more »

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds (www.instapundit.com) for putting up a link to this fascinating personal and political blog from Damascus, Syria. http://amarji.blogspot.com/ more »

On www.globalpolitician.com, David Storobin (whom I regard very highly as an international political analyst) argues that Iraq War has not been worth its long term strategic cost because of our current difficult and dangerous situation with Iran and wit… more »

As a brief follow-up to my recent piece on the war, I’d like to point out a couple more very interesting news stories. First, getting a lot of press is Syria’s announcement that they will leave Lebanon. In an interview with Time Magazine, Syrian Pres… more »

I’m often asked by friends who know I think about this stuff a lot: “Was the war in Iraq worth it?” Most of them know that I thought at the time of invasion that it was, on balance, the right decision. Most of them know I thought the Bush administration… more »

Re: Iraq students protest having Saturday off (Miami Herald, 2/27/05) http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/11001250.htm As a Jewish American I have to agree with the Iraqis who are complaining about Saturday being selected as their… more »