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s, and yet has remarkably culminated in the re- legitimization of the person responsible for it, Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian civil war— particularly the White House's inept and improvisational response to it—has accidentally transformed Putin into a major power- broker for the post-Arab Spring Middle East. (This i

d in Israeli- Palestinian negotiations, which is why we are here again still trying to make this happen today. Rami G. Khouri is Editor-at-large of The Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon. A

aking this impasse. Over the coming days and weeks, they said, Mr. Kerry will discuss the prospects for a new approach with members of his team and the White House. Still, Mr. Kerry also noted that the United States was facing an array of foreign policy challenges that were preoccupying senior administration

we have never had to date. * http://wws.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/content/docs/Kurtzer_Parameterspdf Rami G. Khouri is Editor-at-large of The Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon.

r Scholars. His book, Can America Have Another Great President?, will be published in 2012. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030076 --- PAGE BREAK --- 18 Article 5. The Daily Star Syria fortifies Obama in his indecision Michael Young 12 May -- The New York Times gave readers a double-whammy of Syrian statements on Tuesday. Its

ws on the carnage in Syria through effective policies, the killing and the arrests there will continue, with the U.S. bearing partial responsibility. The White House's uncertainty can be measured in human lives. The Syrian protesters are right in not pursuing their salvation in Washington, let alone Brussels, Paris,

several of his major cities. The regime's behavior is a daily insult to Syrians, one they will not readily forget. Michael Young is opinion editor of THE DAILY STAR and author of "The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle" (Simon & Schuster), listed as one of the 10 notable bo