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ISIS is Barack Obama’s mess. He made it and now he wants our help to clean it up. What do Canadians owe him? He’s turned his back on allies such as Israel, having proven himself a bigger friend to the likes of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood than to the Jewish state. He’s no friend of Canada’s. Instead of working with his friends, he’s tried in vain to appease such longtime enemies as Iran. His rush to pull out of Iraq without leaving a reserve force behind has led to the disaster we see unfolding there now. Now Obama needs...

June 11, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. President George W. Bush, during visits to Albania and Bulgaria, made his most definitive statements yet about the future status of the Serbian province of Kosovo.On a visit to Sofia today, Bush reiterated that "America believes that Kosovo ought to be independent." In Tirana on June 10, Bush said he does not support "endless dialogue" over Kosovo's future status. The U.S. president's comments, which left little room for misinterpretation, are reverberating not only in Belgrade and Pristina, but in other breakaway regions and so-called frozen-conflict zones -- Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Transdniester....

Is this the real Stephen Harper? After watching Stephen Harper in office -- sticking to some positions, flipping on others -- pundits and politicians are divided over whether he would rule differently with a majority. Andrew Mayeda mines the prime minister's past for clues to his future Andrew Mayeda, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Sunday, April 22, 2007 In the summer of 2001, a bookish, somewhat temperamental economist rose before an audience of plumbing-equipment manufacturers at a P.E.I. hotel and talked about how Canada had lost its way. The Liberal government, he argued, was soft, bloated and hopelessly ill-equipped to...

Tories steady in polls despite income trust uproar Norma Greenaway, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen Published: Saturday, November 04, 2006 OTTAWA -- Public support for the Harper government is holding at the strength it scored on election day nine months ago, despite the political storm this week over its flip-flop on taxing income trusts, a new poll has found. Indeed, the national survey by Ipsos-Reid conducted for CanWest News Service paints a picture of an electorate that is virtually unmoved since voters gave Stephen Harper's Conservatives a slim minority last January. If an election were held today, the Conservatives...

PODGORICA, Montenegro, Sept. 26, 2006 – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld arrived here today for meetings with Montenegrin leaders. This is Rumsfeld’s first visit to the country, and he’s the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Montenegro since it achieved its independence earlier this year. On the 10-hour flight here from Washington, Pentagon Press Secretary Eric Ruff said the secretary will discuss with Montenegrin leaders the role they envision for their country in fighting terrorism. “The Montenegrins have indicated that they would like to be part of the effort to fight the global war on terror,” Ruff said. “They have indicated...