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arian ally in the Middle East. Russians retort that U.S. policy toward Syria is all about changing the regime in Damascus, because it's allied with Tehran, and that the U.S. never tried to make Annan's peace initiative work. Each accuses the other of allowing violence in pursuit of larger geopolitical

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n in that pre- industrial, tribal society. Obama's policy toward Iran, despite an encouraging initial effort to establish a meaningful dialogue with Tehran, has resumed the same counterproductive, confrontational path of his predecessors. Tensions with Pakistan have risen sharply, as have tensions in

s to the contrary. Robert Kagan is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His new book, The World America Made, will be published next month. Anne-Marie Slaughter: Overall, Barack Obama has had a very good run on foreign policy, aided by his superstar secretary of state. His greatest accomplishments are the

gime off. But it is as likely to rally Iranians around their leaders. Meanwhile, political change is sweeping across the Middle East. The regime in Tehran is divided and it has lost the faith of its people. Eventually, popular resistance will spring up as it did in 2009. A new regime brought about by

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irls pushed the boys into war is ludicrous,” says Anne-Marie Slaughter, who until recently served as director of policy

and weapons from Iran and Syria, Hizbullah managed to force Israel out of South Lebanon in 2000, after an 18- year occupation. From this was born the Tehran-Damascus-Hizbullah axis, which over the years grew into the principal regional challenger of the United States and Israel. Both the United States an