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Wed. Nov. 9, 2005

Politics in depth > The Americas > Politics & Economy

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Is US Policy Igniting Mideast Reform? *

This is yet another debate sponsored by IslamOnline.net’s Muslim Affairs section over the US role in Mideast change. Retired US Army colonel James L. Abrahamson and Egyptian international relations researcher Kareem M. Kamel disagree on whether the US policy has been promoting political reform in the Middle East.

You may also read our live debate with Abrahamson and Kamel, held on November 14, 2005.

What do you think of this dialogue? What do you think of the live debate? Which argument do you support? E-mail us your comments: mideast@islamonline.net

Read your comments online!

A New Day in Mideast Politics
(By James L. Abrahamson)

An ideological struggle of momentous proportions presently convulses parts of the Middle East...More>>

America’s Hypocritical Interventionism
(By Kareem M. Kamel)

US policies in the Mideast have brought nothing by despair and increasing frustration...More>>


Kamel’s Response: The “White Man’s Burden” Resurrected

Abrahamson does not concern himself with the many factors that lead to the rise and fall of civilizations...More>>

Abrahamson’s Response: The Moral Failure of Arab Intellectuals

Kamel writes as another Sunni apologist for Islamist terror and Mideast autocrats... More>>


* Your comments should be limited to 300 words, are subject to editing and may be used in IslamOnline.net’s online or print material.

James L. Abrahamson is a retired US Army colonel and a graduate of the US Military Academy West Point. He holds advanced degrees in international relations and history from the University of Geneva’s Graduate School of International Studies (MA) and Stanford University (PhD). During the last half of his 27 years of military service, he taught at the US Military Academy and the US Army War College. At present he is on the board of and writes for the Internet journal American Diplomacy.

Kareem M. Kamel is an Egyptian analyst based in Cairo, Egypt. He holds an MA in International Relations from the American University in Cairo and is specialized in security studies, decision-making, nuclear politics, and Middle East politics. He is currently a PhD candidate at the American University in London, and a teaching assistant to the Political Science Department at the American University in Cairo.

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