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Putin has a way out
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 08, 2022
When Russia’s Vladimir Putin massed 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, the United States and its European allies responded with a hastily assembled ...
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Nobody said nuclear deal with Iran would be easy
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 07, 2021
Diplomats from Iran, the United States and five other powers gathered in Vienna last week to try to revive President Barack Obama’s 2015 deal limiting...
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Biden wants China focus; Putin has another idea
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 30, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden arrived in the White House 10 months ago with two top foreign policy priorities: He wanted to rebuild the alliances h...
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Is the USA in trouble?
Letters To Editor
Oct 09, 2021
If the quote from Alexis de Toqueville is correct, the United States is in trouble. He said, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress...
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The US-China face-off is looking like the Cold War
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 28, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden hosted a summit meeting Friday that could turn out to be a watershed — but if you weren’t watching, you might have mi...
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What’s next? Leeches?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
GENE LYONS 
Sep 24, 2021
Americans are currently experiencing one of the most peculiar public episodes of my lifetime. Amid a deadly worldwide disease epidemic, many people ar...
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Liberty Medal shines a needed light on dissidents
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TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Sep 18, 2021
Many people ask me how the United States can claim to promote human rights after its abandonment of Afghan women — and its inability to move China on ...
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We are still at war, and the costs remain high for some
Local Columnists, Nation World
ELIZABETH SHACKELFORD, Tribune News Service 
Sep 13, 2021
When President Joe Biden announced the end of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, he also vowed that the fight against terrorism would continue, in ...
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Questions about Afghan refugees
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Sep 10, 2021
Biden administration officials are proud of their effort to airlift about 118,000 Afghans, plus somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 U.S. citizens, from ...
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The world needs more COVID vaccines
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 08, 2021
President Joe Biden has a huge opportunity in the next few months to regain his footing as a foreign policy president after the fall of Kabul — a chan...
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Are Americans safer today?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 03, 2021
Is America safer after its 20-year war on terrorism in Afghanistan has resulted in the Taliban’s victory? The answer, like the war itself, is muddled....
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Fall of Kabul not the end of US global power
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Aug 23, 2021
Amid the chaos in Kabul, politicians and pundits have declared the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan a defeat from which U.S. influence may never recov...
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