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22:05 +0000 25 March, 2014 Article I. Los Angeles Times Next test for Obama: Soothing the Saudis Dennis Ross Article 2. The National Interest Lebanon's Next Flashpoint Nicholas Saidel Article 3. American Prospect Disrespecting Your Defender Gershom Gorenberg Article 4. Al-Monitor Iran resum

t require him to accept Saudi complaints. However, he needs to show that he has no illusions about the Iranians, spelling out that we know what the Quds Force is doing and the steps the U.S. will to take to counter it. For example, intercepting clandestine Iranian arms shipments would show we mean what w

ministration said Assad's fall was inevitable but refused to make it so. Thousands died as Washington fiddled; instability and violence spread into Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan; and U.S. weapons leaked into terrorist hands. Now civil war has virtually engulfed the most strategic region in the world, making

d into terrorist hands. Now civil war has virtually engulfed the most strategic region in the world, making it a playground for al-Qaeda and Iran's Quds Force. The administration's effort to get tough on China also backfired. Rather than seek to integrate a power whose unstoppable rise was clear to all wh

ve, and medium-range rockets capable of reaching Haifa. Hezbollah incurred a heavy toll for the fight, with much of the infrastructure in southern Lebanon devastated and roughly 1,300 Lebanese civilian casualties threatening to erode its popular support. Casualty numbers aside, Hezbollah emerged from

Arabia and Hamas, and it took advantage to increase funding and weapons supplies to the group. Forces from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, along with Hezbollah, worked with Hamas to expand the group's weapons arsenal and build elaborate tunnels under the Gaza Strip to facilitate its o

n of Iraq in 2003. Photo: Youtube/Brown Moses Governments and bor=ers are under siege elsewhere, as well. For more than a year, Shiite milit=as from Lebanon have moved into Syria and operated as a virtual arm of the=Syrian government. Meanwhile, so many Syrian refugees have gone in the opposite directio

clear weapon but will not stop Washington from confronting Iranian subversion and aggression—such as it= sending hundre=s of Revolutionary Guard an= Quds Force combatants and advisers to Syria. There are many susp=cions in the region that a "grand bargain" between the United St=tes and Iran is still in the