research fellow at the Cato Institute
Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank in Washington, DC; author of Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East
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Leon Hadar
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FROM Leon Hadar
To the Point
Power, Faith and Fantasy in the Middle East It's easy to think that George W. Bush is the first president to believe that America should have a role in transforming the Muslim Middle East or that 60 years ago Harry S Truman was original in making the establishment of a Jewish state an American objective. But the roots of those actions are as old as the US itself.
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