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• Russia fails in UN bid to rein in Turkey over Syria
• U.S. air raid hits Islamic State in Libya, 43 dead
• Despite deadly strike, US wary of Libya engagement: experts
• Russia pushes U.N. Security Council on Syria sovereignty
• Turkey says Obama shares Syria concerns with Erdogan, affirms support
• First Chemical Weapons, Now Radioactive WMDs for ISIS?
• Camaraderie and Teamwork Heal Wounded Veterans during National Cycling Event
• Here’s What Could Save Stocks from the Abyss
• Austria migrant cap angers Greece amid domino effect fears
• US air strike kills dozens at IS camp in Libya
• Michigan charity concludes Phase 1 of Flint Water Relief
• Anti-money laundering body urges more scrutiny of Iran, North Korea
• Pentagon says US bombed IS training camp in Libya
• Iraq tribesmen clash with jihadists inside IS-held Fallujah
• Turkish intervention in Syria risks Turkey-Russia war: Hollande
• US, Russia meet to discuss elusive Syria ceasefire
• Oil in 'tumultuous' week after output freeze deal
• IS leader targeted in Libya planned attacks on Western interests: US
• U.S.-backed fighters capture Islamic State-held town in northeast Syria: monitor
• South Carolina May be Do-or-Die for Jeb Bush’s Presidential Aspirations
• Saudi says Syrian rebels should receive anti-aircraft missiles
• Kurdish-led force takes IS stronghold in northeast Syria: monitor
• Britons with arms cache on Turkish border jailed awaiting trial
• Morocco arrests 10 suspected IS militants, including Frenchman
• Statement By Robert Ledoux, President, CEO And Director Of Passport Systems, Inc. Using Technology To Protect From CBRNE Threats
• Paris attacks suspect hid out in Brussels for 3 weeks: report
• Islamic State group expansion in Libya - timeline
• Stolen Radioactive Material: What Is Iridium-192?
• Turks, Kurds fear tit-for-tat violence in Sweden
• Here’s the Compliment Trump Gave the Pope After Being Slammed on Immigration
• Déjà vu in Pyongyang as Obama signs new anti-nuclear sanctions
• U.S. aircraft hit Islamic State militants in Libya, more than 40 dead
• Polish president Duda says Russia fomenting new Cold War
• A U.S. Strike Against an ISIS Target in Libya
• Twitter’s Account Suspensions Are Surprisingly Effective Against ISIS
• U.S. leads 22 strikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State: statement
• AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from the Middle East this week
• Kurdish-led forces push back IS in NE Syria: monitor
• TIME HAS COME FOR BUSH ERA TO END

Russia fails in UN bid to rein in Turkey over Syria Posted: 19 Feb 2016 04:41 PM PST Western powers Friday rejected a Russian bid at the United Nations to halt Turkey's military actions in Syria, as France warned of a dangerous escalation in the nearly five-year conflict. The emergency Security Council meeting came as US Secretary of State John Kerry cautioned there was "a lot more work to do" for a ceasefire to take hold in Syria, following talks in Geneva between American and Russian officials. Meanwhile President Barack Obama, in a phone call with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urged the Ankara government and Kurdish YPG forces to "show reciprocal restraint" in northern Syria.

U.S. air raid hits Islamic State in Libya, 43 dead Posted: 19 Feb 2016 03:07 PM PST By Ahmed Elumami and Aidan Lewis TRIPOLI (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes launched air strikes against a suspected Islamic State training camp in western Libya on Friday, killing more than 40 people, likely including a militant connected to two deadly attacks last year in neighboring Tunisia. It was the second U.S. air strike in three months against Islamic State in Libya, where the hardline Islamist militants have exploited years of chaos following Muammar Gaddafi's 2011 overthrow to build up a presence on the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The Pentagon said it had targeted an Islamic State training camp.

Despite deadly strike, US wary of Libya engagement: experts Posted: 19 Feb 2016 02:55 PM PST The US bombardment of an Islamic State camp in Libya dramatically highlights Washington's resolve to hunt the jihadists beyond their Syrian and Iraqi strongholds, but experts doubt it heralds any deeper engagement in the chaos-riddled country. In what was only the second time the United States hit an IS target in Libya, the air strike early Friday saw warplanes and drones obliterate a training center near the city of Sabratha west of Tripoli. The Pentagon would not confirm the toll, but said as many as 60 jihadists were spotted using the facility during weeks of surveillance ahead of the strike, and that a top IS operative, Noureddine Chouchane, was "likely" killed.

Russia pushes U.N. Security Council on Syria sovereignty Posted: 19 Feb 2016 02:46 PM PST By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia asked the United Nations Security Council on Friday to call for Syria's sovereignty to be respected, for cross-border shelling and incursions to be halted and for "attempts or plans for foreign ground intervention" to be abandoned. Russia circulated a short draft resolution to the 15-member council over concerns about an escalation in hostilities after Turkey this week said it and other countries could commit ground troops to Syria. The Security Council met on Friday afternoon to discuss the draft, but veto-powers the United States, France and Britain all said it had no future.

Turkey says Obama shares Syria concerns with Erdogan, affirms support Posted: 19 Feb 2016 02:10 PM PST By Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's presidency said U.S. President Barack Obama had shared his concerns over the Syrian conflict and promised his support on Friday, hours after a tense exchange between the two NATO allies over the role of Kurdish militants. In a phone conversation that lasted one hour and twenty minutes, Ankara said Obama had told his counterpart President Tayyip Erdogan that Turkey had a right to self defense, and expressed worries over advances by Syrian Kurdish militias near Turkey's border. Washington did not immediately comment on the call, beyond saying Obama has given his condolences over Wednesday's bombing in the Turkish capital.. Earlier on Friday, Erdogan had said U.S.-supplied weapons had been used against civilians by a Syrian Kurdish militia group that Ankara blames for the deadly suicide bombing this week.

First Chemical Weapons, Now Radioactive WMDs for ISIS? Posted: 19 Feb 2016 02:05 PM PST Global concern is rising after a pair of incidents suggest that the Islamic State is inching closing to its long-stated goal of acquiring a weapon of mass destruction. Fresh off the news that the terror group had used chemical weapons against Kurdish fighters in Iraq, Reuters reported that ISIS had stolen a laptop-sized device containing radioactive material, which the International Atomic Energy Agency has since confirmed was Iridium-192, from a site in Iraq. The extent of contamination would depend on a number of factors, including the size of the conventional explosive, the amount of radioactive material used, the means of dispersal and weather.

Camaraderie and Teamwork Heal Wounded Veterans during National Cycling Event Posted: 19 Feb 2016 01:30 PM PST SAN DIEGO, Feb. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) Soldier Ride® is cruising to California, where 55 of our nation's heroes will begin their journey toward a strong recovery with fellow wounded veterans. Throughout the cycling event, participants will discover that Soldier Ride is not only a cycling event, it is a life-changing opportunity to heal their bodies and minds.Soldier Ride San Diego will unite injured service members for three days of group cycling that facilitates camaraderie and healing through physical health and wellness activities. ...

Here’s What Could Save Stocks from the Abyss Posted: 19 Feb 2016 01:00 PM PST By all indications the upswing should continue as market breadth, or the number of stocks participating to the upside, returns to levels not seen since October. The first is hopes of a production cut agreement by OPEC and Russia. Iranian oil minister Bijan Zanganeh met with officials from Qatar, Venezuela and Iraq in Tehran on Wednesday to discuss a proposal to freeze production at January levels.

Austria migrant cap angers Greece amid domino effect fears Posted: 19 Feb 2016 12:54 PM PST Austria on Friday introduced a daily cap on asylum-seekers, sparking EU fears of a domino effect along the Balkan migrant trail and a threat from Greece to veto an accord keeping Britain in the bloc. The arrival of more than a million refugees and migrants in Europe last year has caused a chain reaction of border clampdowns among several member states. Instead, Greece has pinned its hopes on the EU and Turkey firming up a deal to stem the migration flow at a special summit on March 6.

US air strike kills dozens at IS camp in Libya Posted: 19 Feb 2016 12:41 PM PST A US air strike on a jihadist training camp in Libya killed dozens of people Friday, probably including a senior Islamic State group operative behind attacks in Tunisia, officials said. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said Noureddine Chouchane, also known as "Sabir," and other jihadists had been planning attacks against American and other Western interests. "We took this action against Sabir in the training camp after determining that both he and the ISIL fighters at these facilities were planning external attacks on US and other Western interests in the region," Cook said, without providing specifics.

Michigan charity concludes Phase 1 of Flint Water Relief Posted: 19 Feb 2016 12:39 PM PST SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Feb. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For nearly 2 years a water crisis has devastated the town of Flint, Michigan because the main source of water for the city has been lead-contaminated river water. For several weeks volunteers from Life for Relief and Development, a Southfield, Michigan based humanitarian aid organization, have walked the neighborhoods of Flint distributing bottled water to affected families. The second phase of Life's Flint Water Relief will start on the first week of March.

Anti-money laundering body urges more scrutiny of Iran, North Korea Posted: 19 Feb 2016 12:35 PM PST An international anti-money laundering group wants government financial intelligence agencies to give extra scrutiny to transactions and business relationships involving Iran and North Korea. Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said on Friday that it remained "particularly and exceptionally concerned" about what it called Iran's "failure to address the risk of terrorist financing and the serious threat this poses to the integrity of the international financial system." In the wake of the relaxation of international financial and trade sanctions against Iran following a U.S.-led international accord last year that limited Tehran's nuclear program in exchange, the transaction network SWIFT reconnected several Iranian banks, allowing them to resume cross border transactions with foreign banks.

Pentagon says US bombed IS training camp in Libya Posted: 19 Feb 2016 12:32 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — American F-15E fighter-bombers struck an Islamic State training camp in rural Libya near the Tunisian border Friday, killing dozens, probably including an IS operative considered responsible for deadly attacks in Tunisia last year, U.S. and local officials said. The strike did not appear to mark the beginning of a sustained U.S. campaign in Libya but a Pentagon spokesman said "it may not be the last."

Iraq tribesmen clash with jihadists inside IS-held Fallujah Posted: 19 Feb 2016 11:41 AM PST Deadly clashes erupted between Iraqi tribesmen and the Islamic State group inside jihadist bastion Fallujah on Friday, a sign their longstanding hold on the city west of Baghdad is weakening. Fallujah is one of two Iraqi cities still controlled by IS, and a concerted and sustained uprising by local tribes could pose a significant threat to the estimated 300 to 400 jihadists inside it. Sunni Arab tribesmen from Anbar province, where Fallujah is located, played a key role in driving back IS's predecessor organisation Al-Qaeda in Iraq after joining forces with US troops from 2006.

Turkish intervention in Syria risks Turkey-Russia war: Hollande Posted: 19 Feb 2016 11:26 AM PST French President Francois Hollande on Friday said Ankara's escalating involvement in the Syrian conflict was creating a risk of war between Turkey and Russia. "Turkey is involved in Syria... There, there is a risk of war," Hollande told France Inter radio. Hollande also said "Russia will be unable to cope if it unilaterally supports (Syrian President) Bashar al-Assad" and called for "pressure" to be exerted on Moscow to negotiate on Syria.

US, Russia meet to discuss elusive Syria ceasefire Posted: 19 Feb 2016 11:17 AM PST US and Russian officials met Friday to discuss an elusive ceasefire in Syria, as fighting on the ground continued with Kurdish-led forces seizing a key town from the Islamic State group. The truce under discussion was meant to begin Friday, but has failed to materialise so far, with the UN's Syria envoy also acknowledging that a proposed February 25 date to restart stalled peace talks was no longer "realistically" possible. Meanwhile, tensions between regime backer Moscow and opposition supporter Ankara escalated, with Russia convening a UN Security Council meeting for later Friday to discuss the possibility of a Turkish ground intervention in Syria.

Oil in 'tumultuous' week after output freeze deal Posted: 19 Feb 2016 10:52 AM PST The oil market was gripped this week by an output freeze deal between the world's top two producers Saudi Arabia and Russia. Prices initially rebounded on Tuesday, before hitting reverse as traders assessed the conditional agreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia and two other producers to limit output. In a bid to stabilize an oversupplied market, Russia and OPEC members Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Qatar announced Tuesday that they had reached a preliminary deal to freeze output at January levels, provided that other major producers followed suit.

IS leader targeted in Libya planned attacks on Western interests: US Posted: 19 Feb 2016 10:34 AM PST A US air strike targeting an Islamic State training camp in Libya on Friday "likely" killed an operative of the extremist group who was planning attacks on Western interests, US officials said. Noureddine Chouchane, who was also known as "Sabir," had been linked to two deadly attacks in Tunisia last year. "We took this action against Sabir in the training camp after determining that both he and the ISIL fighters at these facilities were planning external attacks on US and other Western interests in the region," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said, without providing specifics.

U.S.-backed fighters capture Islamic State-held town in northeast Syria: monitor Posted: 19 Feb 2016 10:07 AM PST A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian fighters including the Kurdish YPG militia captured an Islamic State-held town in Syria's northeast on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. The capture of al-Shadadi in Hasaka province came three days after the beginning of an offensive against Islamic State in the area by the Syria Democratic Forces backed by U.S.-led air strikes, and would help isolate Raqqa, the jihadists' de-facto capital in Syria. There was no immediate comment from the Syria Democratic Forces.

South Carolina May be Do-or-Die for Jeb Bush’s Presidential Aspirations Posted: 19 Feb 2016 10:00 AM PST As Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump enjoys telling audiences, former Florida governor Jeb Bush and his Super PACS have raised $155.6 million in the 2016 presidential campaign so far with little to show for it. The one-time hot political commodity has steadily fallen in the polls and shrunk in stature under Trump's withering attacks regarding his "low energy," his "weak" stands on immigration and national security and his reliance on his brother, former President George W. Bush, and his 90-year-old mother to try to jumpstart his campaign. Although his joint appearance with his brother early this week gave Bush's campaign a much-needed jolt – the Bush family is still revered by many in the state -- he reportedly was sorely disappointed that Republican Gov. Nikki Haley endorsed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio over him in the South Carolina primary.

Saudi says Syrian rebels should receive anti-aircraft missiles Posted: 19 Feb 2016 09:50 AM PST Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Syrian moderate rebels should be armed with surface-to-air missiles against the Russian-backed Assad regime, a German news weekly reported Friday. Anti-aircraft weapons could tip the scales on the battlefield as they did in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s, Adel al-Jubeir is quoted as saying in an interview with Der Spiegel. "We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground," he said, stressing this would have to be decided by a coalition of partner states.

Kurdish-led force takes IS stronghold in northeast Syria: monitor Posted: 19 Feb 2016 09:50 AM PST A Kurdish-led alliance backed by US-led strikes seized a stronghold of the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria on Friday, a monitor said. The Syrian Democratic Forces were now in full control of Al-Shadadi in Hasakeh province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The Observatory said IS forces had withdrawn south of the town, and SDF fighters were engaged in "mopping up" operations outside Al-Shadadi.

Britons with arms cache on Turkish border jailed awaiting trial Posted: 19 Feb 2016 09:22 AM PST Greece has jailed three Britons caught carrying weapons and ammunition near the Turkish border apparently destined for Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State jihadists, officials said Friday. Police arrested the other two men in the port of Alexandropolis, the main town in the Evros region and a key commercial centre in northeastern Greece.

Morocco arrests 10 suspected IS militants, including Frenchman Posted: 19 Feb 2016 09:06 AM PST By Zakia Abdennebi SALE, Morocco (Reuters) - Moroccan authorities said on Friday they had arrested 10 suspected militants linked to the Islamic State, including a French citizen, and seized weapons and bomb-making materials in raids on their hideouts. The cell is the latest in a series of radical groups Morocco says it has uncovered. Thursday's raids took place at locations the group used in the southern city of Essaouira and the central cities of Meknes and Sidi Kacem, authorities said.

Statement By Robert Ledoux, President, CEO And Director Of Passport Systems, Inc. Using Technology To Protect From CBRNE Threats Posted: 19 Feb 2016 08:51 AM PST "With support from the Department of Homeland Security, as well as private investors, Passport Systems, Inc. has developed a highly advanced technology, the SmartShield™ Networked Radiation Detection System, which can detect and prevent CBRNE threats, such as those posed by the radiative material missing in Iraq.  A key component of our global architecture strategy for interdiction, SmartShield™ is a handheld networked radiation detection system. It provides seamless integration of individual detectors into a coordinated network, while its advanced algorithms use the information provided by the network to perform improved radiation detection, localization, identification, and continuous mapping of the background. The system integrates proprietary detection technologies with conventional high-resolution imaging and intelligent passive radiation detection to quickly clear or detect threat materials.

Paris attacks suspect hid out in Brussels for 3 weeks: report Posted: 19 Feb 2016 08:27 AM PST Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in November's Paris attacks, was holed up for three weeks after the killings in an apartment in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek, a report said Friday. Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure said Abdeslam took refuge in the apartment from November 14, the day after the attacks in which 130 people died, until December 4 when special forces descended on the area. Responding to the report, Belgium's Federal prosecutor confirmed to AFP that a fingerprint belonging to Abdeslam was found in an apartment in Schaerbeek.

Islamic State group expansion in Libya - timeline Posted: 19 Feb 2016 07:48 AM PST Tripoli (AFP) - The Islamic State group, targeted by a US air strike in Libya Friday, moved into the country in 2014 in the chaos that followed the ouster of dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

Stolen Radioactive Material: What Is Iridium-192? Posted: 19 Feb 2016 06:59 AM PST Some security experts are worried that a cache of radioactive material reportedly stolen from an oil field in Iraq could be used by organizations such as the Islamic State group to produce a dirty bomb. A laptop-size case with about 0.35 ounces (10 grams) of the material, called iridium-192, allegedly went missing from an oil field storage facility in Basra that is run by the American company Weatherford, Reuters reported. "We are afraid the radioactive element will fall into the hands of Daesh," a senior security official with the Iraqi government, told Reuters, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group, also called ISIS.

Turks, Kurds fear tit-for-tat violence in Sweden Posted: 19 Feb 2016 06:48 AM PST Turks and Kurds have lived peacefully side by side for years in Sweden -- but two incidents within a week are fuelling concern of tit-for-tat violence, amid heightened tensions in the Middle East. In the Stockholm suburb of Botkyrka, a powerful blast at a Turkish cultural centre destroyed two offices Wednesday evening, leaving broken glass and blackened walls. "I have many young people who are worried now, they say 'maybe the Turks will come to my house and shoot me'," said Yilmas Zengin, a 55-year-old of Turkish and Kurdish origin who runs the nearby Botkyrka Youth Centre.

Here’s the Compliment Trump Gave the Pope After Being Slammed on Immigration Posted: 19 Feb 2016 06:30 AM PST Forced to abandon his preferred formats of frenzied campaign rallies and acid-tongued presidential debates, the Republican frontrunner reveled in his role as one of the most bombastic candidates to ever seek the Oval Office, unapologetically kicking the multiple hornet nests stirred up in the previous 48 hours while also trying to answer questions from real South Carolina voters. Hours after Pope Francis implicitly criticized the billionaire's immigration proposals -- namely the building of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico -- the former reality TV star took the stage at a CNN town hall in the Palmetto State to suggest that the lightly veiled criticism came after officials had whispered in the ear of His Holiness during his just-finished visit to Mexico. "Somehow the government of Mexico spoke with the Pope, I mean they spent a lot of time with the Pope, and …I think that he heard one side of the story," Trump said.

Déjà vu in Pyongyang as Obama signs new anti-nuclear sanctions Posted: 19 Feb 2016 06:16 AM PST Two months after I arrived in Beijing in 2006 to head The Christian Science Monitor's Asia bureau, North Korea exploded its first ever nuclear device. Ten years later, two months before I leave this post, Pyongyang exploded a nuclear device for the fourth time, thumbing its nose yet again at UN resolutions forbidding such tests. "We've achieved nothing over the past decade," laments Winston Lord, a former US ambassador to China.

U.S. aircraft hit Islamic State militants in Libya, more than 40 dead Posted: 19 Feb 2016 06:15 AM PST By Ahmed Elumami and Aidan Lewis TRIPOLI (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State-linked militants in western Libya on Friday, killing as many as 40 people in an operation targeting a suspect linked to two deadly attacks last year in neighbouring Tunisia. It was the second U.S. air strike in three months against Islamic State in Libya, where the hardline Islamist militants have exploited years of chaos following Muammar Gaddafi's 2011 overthrow to build up a presence on the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The mayor of the Libyan city of Sabratha, Hussein al-Thwadi, told Reuters the planes struck at 3:30 a.m. (0130 GMT), hitting a building in the city's Qasr Talil district where foreign workers were living.

Polish president Duda says Russia fomenting new Cold War Posted: 19 Feb 2016 06:06 AM PST By Pawel Sobczak and Mark John WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish President Andrzej Duda accused Russia of fomenting a new Cold War through its actions in Ukraine and Syria, and said Poland was ready to help any future NATO efforts in combating the Islamic State. In an interview with Reuters, Duda hit back at comments by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who last week described East-West relations as descending "into a new Cold War" and said NATO was "hostile and closed" toward Russia.

A U.S. Strike Against an ISIS Target in Libya Posted: 19 Feb 2016 05:57 AM PST U.S. airstrikes in Libya have reportedly targeted a Tunisian ISIS commander, multiple news organizations are reporting, citing U.S. officials. The airstrikes, which reportedly were carried out early Friday near the town of Sabratha, about 50 miles west of Tripoli, the capital, come as the White House is considering military action against ISIS, which has made significant recent gains in Libya.

Twitter’s Account Suspensions Are Surprisingly Effective Against ISIS Posted: 19 Feb 2016 05:00 AM PST Plagued with complaints from lawmakers and officials that it's too soft on Islamic State terrorists and their online supporters, Twitter has stepped up the pace and breadth of account suspensions during the past year. And according to new research, its campaign to curb the group's propaganda reach seems to be working.

U.S. leads 22 strikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State: statement Posted: 19 Feb 2016 04:40 AM PST WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The United States and its allies conducted 22 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria Thursday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement. Thirteen strikes staged in Iraq were concentrated near Mosul and Ramadi, where they hit three of the militant group's tactical units as well as a weapons storage facility and a dozen fighting positions, the statement released on Friday said. Other strikes hit targets near Al Baghdadi, Albu Hayat, Hit and Sinjar. ...

AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from the Middle East this week Posted: 19 Feb 2016 04:21 AM PST Highlights from the weekly AP photo report from the Middle East and Pakistan, a selection of surprising images you might have missed from the region.

Kurdish-led forces push back IS in NE Syria: monitor Posted: 19 Feb 2016 03:04 AM PST The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were now just five kilometres (three miles) from the town of Al-Shadadi in Hasakeh province. The advance comes on the third day of a major offensive by the SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters. The Observatory said SDF fighters had also taken the Kibabeh oil field to the northeast of Al-Shadadi, after heavy fighting and multiple air strikes by the US-led coalition fighting IS.

TIME HAS COME FOR BUSH ERA TO END Posted: 19 Feb 2016 01:29 AM PST The view being promulgated by much of the media, and especially TV, is that the Bush brothers' dramatic staged appearance in South Carolina Monday night was a successful political stroke, a final answer to the terrors of Trumpism, maybe even a presidential tour de force. Jeb! followed him, seemingly invigorated by siblings' unspoken bonds, and gave the best speech of his until-now hapless presidential run. Remember that some months ago, Barbara Bush, a remarkable woman not given to foolhardy dreams of adventure beyond our shores, declared publicly that Jeb! should not run for the presidency this year.

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