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t Take Into Account Dueling Irans Rob Sobhani Article 4. Los Angeles Times Will Iran crack? Meghan L. O'Sullivan Article 5. The Diplomat Are Obama's Iran Sanctions A Ruse? Robert Dreyfuss Article 6. Foreign Policy Think Again: India's Rise Sumit Ganguly Arucic I. The Wall Street Journal T

kers to conclude that India will easily emerge as one of the world's great powers in the 21st century. In 2010 while visiting India, U.S. President Barack Obama said, "India is not just a rising power; India has already risen." And just a few weeks ago, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called India a "linchpi

ns that demand a stop to enrichment. Since 2009, President Obama has opposed, deflected, and tried to weaken sanc

ry. In 2010 while visiting India, U.S. President Barack Obama said, "India is not just a rising power; In

the Syrian leader. It is true that Iran's prospects of keeping Syria as its own Mediterranean outpost are probably linked with the survivability of al Assad's regime. But his removal might well hasten the slide into chaos within Syria and in adjacent Lebanon, rather than slow it. Al Assad's departure coul

, is impossible, you need to say so. I think those who have been advocating a more activist U.S. intervention in Syria — and excoriating President Obama for not leading that — are not being realistic about what it would take to create a decent outcome. Why? In the Middle East, the alternative to bad

eing out his days in a prison cell at the Hague. President Obama on Monday warned Assad that he would be "held ac

gime began to recalculate the probability of survival and their interests. The regime has not unraveled, but it is unraveling. The speculation over al Assad's whereabouts and heavy fighting in Damascus is simply part of the regime's problems. Rumors, whether true or not, create uncertainty that the regime

ial Says Laura Rozen Aug 14, 2012 -- Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl traveled to Israel 13 times during his tenure as the Obama administration's top Pentagon Middle East civilian policy advisor from 2009 to the end of 2011. Kahl, now a Georgetown University professor, senior

ous. There is no such thing. Not to mention that President Obama doesn't even know if he'll still be sitting in t

84025 preserving Syria's secular military regime without al Assad. But it is unclear how long a Western-backed regime resting on the structure of al Assad's Syria would survive. Even the best outcome has its own danger. And while Lebanon itself has been reasonably stable in recent years, when Syria catc