Shawn Amoei
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Shawn Amoei was born in Manchester, England and now writes about foreign policy from Dallas, Texas where he resides.

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Silencing the Moderate Middle

Posted August 3, 2011 | 14:01:45 (EST)

The recent terrorist attacks in Norway gave the world a glimpse of what happens when violent fanatics take the fore and moderates are sidelined. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, the silence of good men is all it takes for evil to triumph. Today, we in the United States face our own...

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Obama Scores Points With the Iranian People

Posted May 26, 2011 | 15:51:17 (EST)

In a message released on YouTube Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a long sought-after change in visa policy toward Iran. Under a single-entry policy, Iranian students studying in the United States could not leave without their visas expiring. The newly revised policy allows Iranian students...

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Neocon War Plans Undermine Iranians' Quest for Democracy

Posted August 12, 2010 | 10:29:49 (EST)

The "Bomb Iran" crowd, fresh off their historic blunder in Iraq, is now at it again with Iran. As if the daily drumbeat of articles and op-eds advocating war with Iran was not enough, Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a truly dangerous resolution -- explicitly...

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