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or the U.S. and Europe. Afghanistan. Ankara was among a handful of NATO members that increased commitments in Afghanistan in response to President Barack Obama's request for additional resources in December 2009. Although Turkish troops are heavily concentrated in Kabul, Ankara has put the bulk of its resour

ways to the premature 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for President Obama. It signaled hopes for the future, rather than ac

mitments in Afghanistan in response to President Barack Obama's request for additional resources in Decem

ritory could become Syria's Benghazi, potentially a home for a more local and credible opposition than the exile-dominated one that recently met in Antalya, Turkey, and a destination to which soldiers and their families could defect. A council of defected officers might then organize attacks on the reg

natural gas to Israel following pressure from the Obama Administration. Supplies were halted following a

im Khaddam, (who has been living in Paris since he split with the Assad regime in 2005) criticized the meeting of the opposition which took place in Antalya two weeks ago, arguing that the delegates did not produce concrete proposals in support of the popular revolt, but rather recognized the legitimacy

g for Al-Qaeda's caliphate. Al-Qaeda is not Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia or Mao's China. Today it is under unprecedented stress from the strategy Obama has developed. We should be vigilant but not panic. We don't need torture to defeat Al-Qaeda; we need respect for Islam and a determined effort to

ean's crowded neighborhood. To make its disagreement clear, Ankara has chartered a Norwegian seismic survey ship to look into the area southwest of Antalya. This particular Turkish-Greek dispute is unlikely to lead to the near- wars seen in the Aegean Sea, most recently in 1987 and 1996. It will, howev