The administration's pathetic, dithering response to the Arab uprisings has been both cynical and naive.
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"However meanly and grudgingly, even the new Republican speaker has now conceded that the president is Hawaiian-born and some kind of Christian. So let's hope that's the end of all that. A more pressing question now obtrudes itself: Is Barack Obama secretly Swiss?"
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Is Barack Obama Secretly Swiss?
February 25, 2011Posted by Tom at 21:09
Labels: 2011, Barack Obama, Christopher Hitchens, Slate
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Dear Hitch,
Do you think that the movement of Iranian warships into the Mediterranean (first excursion since 1979) might have anything to do with US strategy, or lack thereof?
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