U.S. policy - Muslims and Liberals

Is Democratic Party festering in a rut?

Mustafa Malik — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 00:50:28 +0000

AS I WAITED yesterday for the second Democratic presidential debate, I tossed out a question to Facebook. Could Joe Biden “get up before the referee counts to 10”? Some friends liked it, but none offered a response. I had thought that the former vice president, so far the clear front-runner in the polls, would get...

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No ‘cakewalk’ to Pyongyang, please

Mustafa Malik — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 04:36:38 +0000

ON WEDNESDAY I was about to head out to a seminar on cyber security at Wilson Center in Washington when I peeked into the Internet to check the latest news. “U.S. quietly plans to occupy North Korea after war,” a banner headline in London’s The Sun newspaper screamed at me. I remembered that President Trump...

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Bravo, Trump!

Mustafa Malik — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 04:34:00 +0000

This is a first for me: supporting an action of President Trump. I applaud his order tonight to strike Syrian military installations with dozens of Tomahawks. It’s a highly moral and humane undertaking whose strategic consequences are likely to be far-reaching. I hope that America will finally get rid of the ghastliest and most repugnant...

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Did CIA try to bump off Erdogan?

Mustafa Malik — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 03:20:37 +0000

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN has upped the ante in his row with the Obama administration, which has heated up since last month’s failed coup in Turkey. The Turkish president now has jumped onto the lap of America’s geopolitical rival, Vladimir Putin. Erdogan’s meeting Tuesday with his Russian counterpart in a czarist palace outside St. Petersburg has opened...

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Iran deal: Break it and you own it

Mustafa Malik — Mon, 23 May 2016 22:39:53 +0000

America can start a conflict with Iran and throw a “Mission Accomplished” party after a likely initial victory. But only Iran could end the war. With its network of activists and militias across the “Shiite Crescent,” the Islamic Republic could set the Middle East on fire, which probably wouldn’t stop before consuming many of America’s interests and endangering its hegemony in Muslim west Asia.

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Declare Middle East nuke-free

Mustafa Malik — Fri, 15 May 2015 07:50:58 +0000

Persian Gulf monarchies are petrified by the anticipated Iran nuclear deal, being negotiated in Geneva. Last week Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates threatened to try to acquire nuclear weapons technology if they didn’t get one of two things from the Iran deal. One, they wanted the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment program shut down...

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Terror bred by grievances, not Islam

Mustafa Malik — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:42:29 +0000

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S speech at this week’s terrorism conference in the White House sounded to me like a broken record from the George W. Bush administration. Bush and his advisers attributed Muslim terrorism to Islam. “Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him,” said John Ashcroft, Bush’s...

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Gaza, Pakistan and ignoble US legacy

Mustafa Malik — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:30:12 +0000

The anti-government protests now raging in Pakistan and the travails of Hamas in Palestine remind me of Nurul Amin, my mentor. He served, at different times, as prime minister of Pakistan and Bangladesh, which was then East Pakistan. In February 1972, in Rawalpindi, Amin was telling me about the political intrigues that had led to...

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Manufacturing an ‘existential threat’

Mustafa Malik — Sat, 31 May 2014 08:06:27 +0000

Here’s a searing expose of the ominous U.S.-Israeli narrative about Iran’s nuclear program. It shows how American neocons and the Israeli right wing made Iran’s peaceful nuclear program into an “existential threat” to Israel and sold it to the world. It reminds me of the “mushroom cloud” invented and propagated by the neocons during the...

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Afghans show door to blind hegemon

Mustafa Malik — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:05:58 +0000

America and Iraq would have been spared the horrors of the uncalled for Iraq war if children of those who had decided to invade that country had been sent into the battlefields.

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