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ions along with Saddam Hussein. As a cautionary tale, Kissinger and others point not only to Iraq but also to Libya. Kissinger lumped Libya in with Yemen, Somalia and northern Mali as a "blank space" on the map "denoting lawlessness." Yet political scientist Juan Cole, who recently visited Libya, wh

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President Hosni Mubarak, play a key enabling role in the Libya intervention, and work hard if not so successfully behind the scenes in Bahrain and Yemen, Washington kept itself relevant to the conversation in a changing Arab world -- no small achievement, despite how far short it falls of hopes both

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

olonel Muammer Gaddafi over-ran Benghazi; the US stood by; the Libyan opposition was reduced to sporadic uprisings, quickly crushed. The regimes in Yemen and Syria took note, and put down their own uprisings with greater vigour. The west let brutality and oppression triumph again in the Middle East.

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olonel Muammer Gaddafi over-ran Benghazi; the US stood by; the Libyan opposition was reduced to sporadic uprisings, quickly crushed. The regimes in Yemen and Syria took note, and put down their own uprisings with greater vigour. The west let brutality and oppression triumph again in the Middle East.

Abueid Scientific American Is Muammar Qadhafi Clinically Psychotic? John Matson The Financial Times Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong Anne-Marie Slaughter Foreign Policy Sinai's Bedouin run amok in post-Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahm y The National Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes

the least fallout from those actions. But it's not perfect." It is far from that. In December, an American drone flying above Al Bayda province, in Yemen, fired on what U.S. intelligence believed was a column of Al Qaeda fighters. The "column" was in fact a wedding party; twelve people were killed, a

y, rather than through liberation narratives coming from the West," Fareed Zakaria, a writer on foreign policy whom Obama reads and consults, says. Anne-Marie Slaughter, who worked at the State Department as Hillary Clinton's director of policy planning, says, "Obama has a real understanding of the limits of our po

anny of four decades, was stirred to life and conquered its fear after witnessing the upheaval that had earlier overtaken Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. In Istanbul this month, I encountered the variety, and the normalcy, of this rebellion in extended discussions with prominent figures of the Syri

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Colonel Muammer Gaddafi over-ran Benghazi; the US stood by; the Libyan opposition was reduced to sporadic uprisings, quickly crushed. The regimes in Yemen and Syria took note, and put down their own uprisings with greater vigour. The west let brutality and oppression triumph again in the Middle East. T

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

re sinking into the sand.” Within days, demonstrators filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square, a vibrant plea for greater freedom that swiftly spread to Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Oman, Libya, and eventually even Syria. But if Madam Secretary could be ahead of the curve, she was also sometimes behind it, caught in a d