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ome a series of tests, for players and pundits, from Tripoli to Paris, from London to Washington. GLOBAL REACTION Next week, the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, will host a gathering of Libyan and intemational officials in one of Paris' gilded conference rooms. The French leader's diplomacy will be measure

EACTION Next week, the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, will host a gathering of Libyan and intemationa

ceed more cautiously than they did in the Afghanistan and Iraq ventures, despite the infectious excitement of the early days of liberated Kabul and Baghdad. Remember: what started in Libya as the humanitarian defence of the population of the eastern city of Benghazi became a full-blooded push for regim

becoming a member of a federal Europe. Cameron is not—despite the opprobrium that has been heaped on his head by everyone from the French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander—a pathologically insular Little Englander. Like Margaret Thatcher, he believes in the single Eur

ide. Though that hardly kept them from acting at EU summits as though they had long since introduced the euro. At the summit before last, in fact, Sarkozy even lost his cool, telling Cameron "you missed a good opportunity to keep your mouth shut." The French president continued: "We are sick of you cr

week The Next Iraq War Babak Dehghanpisheh and Eli Lake December 12, 2011 -- A convoy carrying Qassim Fandawi sped down the desert highway toward Baghdad last month, but roughly 12 miles west of the capital, a roadside bomb blasted the vehicles. Fandawi, the governor of Anbar province, escaped unharm

will be big news. And there will be pressure to ease the sanctions. It is possible that the Russians or the Chinese--or even the French, now that Nicolas Sarkozy is no longer in charge--will concede, which is what the Iranians are obviously hoping for. The true test of the Obama Administration's diplomacy wi

he Chinese--or even the French, now that Nicolas Sarkozy is no longer in charge--will concede, which is w

for Istanbul on April 13. At first, it seemed the same old dodge: weeks were wasted as the Iranians attempted to switch the site of the meeting to Baghdad. That effort met a brick wall; the U.N. coalition, often a spongy alliance, refused to countenance it, and the Iranians ... backed down. And then