Richard Cohen
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When doing nothing is a policyFeb 27, 2013 4:00 am - In the movie “Lawrence of Arabia,” the attempt to unite the Arabs comes apart in Damascus. Lawrence bangs on his desk with the butt of his gun to bring the assembly to o...
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Love, alas, is all around usFeb 20, 2013 4:00 am - I love you. Honestly, I do. I love all my readers — each and every one of you, including the ones I don’t know, which is most of you. This is the way it now is in Americ...
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The price of forsaking SyriaFeb 12, 2013 4:00 am - We finally have an Obama Doctrine. It is not quite the one outlined in various major speeches — Cairo, Berlin or the Greco-Roman one delivered at the 2008 Democratic Nat...
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Courage of their convictionsFeb 06, 2013 4:00 am - Imagine six former directors of the CIA talking with a distinguished filmmaker and confessing to the murder of two terrorism suspects, ordering the assassination of othe...
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On torture, a debate we needJan 31, 2013 4:00 am - In retrospect, a better title for the terrific film “Zero Dark Thirty” would have been “Rorschach.” Like the famous ink blots developed by Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Ro...
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The necessity to act in SyriaJan 22, 2013 4:00 am - There are two kinds of wars, we are told — wars of choice and wars of necessity. The former is to be avoided and the latter fought with appropriate reluctance. World War...
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The debacle of the gun control debateJan 17, 2013 4:00 am - Once, after I had written about gun control, a guy called to differ and said that had the Jews of Germany been armed, the Holocaust never would have happened. That asser...
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The tarring of Chuck HagelJan 09, 2013 4:00 am - Before they were girls, they were women. Before that, they were girls. I am not talking here of the chronology of females but of acceptable usage. Back in the 1970s, for...
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Republicans adriftJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - On Nov. 11, a mere five days after the presidential election, the cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam pushed off from Fort Lauderdale for a Caribbean jaunt. Aboard were nearly 6...
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A Washington messJan 01, 2013 4:00 am - In 1962, Casey Stengel, the longtime manager of the New York Yankees, came out of retirement to lead the New York Mets, an expansion team. That season the Mets lost an a...