A look back at the 1990's reveals some startling similarities in the ways they operate, and in the ways the West seems to have missed opportunities to weaken each of them.

The election in Israel this week has this startling similarity to our own election: swing voters believe what their candidates are saying about each other.

Also note the startling similarities between this portrait and Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X.

Liebow observes that there is a startling similarity between Holmes and Lecoq's speech, conduct, and meditations.

Yet that did not explain to him the startling similarities between the real and the fake.

Such very different men, but with such startling physical similarities.

He compares George Walker Herbert Bush to Herbert Hoover, finding "startling similarities."

Identical twin girls separated at birth and reunited decades later have shown both startling similarities and differences.

Scientists looked at the brain scans of those who spend excess amounts of time on the net, compared them to those addicted to alcohol, and found startling similarities.

This odd, occasional opening and shutting of his mouth, without speech, had quite a startling similarity to the slow gaping and gulping of a fish.