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a WikiLeaks cable that brilliantly foreshadowed how environmental stresses would fuel the uprising. Sent on Nov. 8, 2008, from the U.S. Embassy in Damascus to the State Department, the cable details how, in light of what was a devastating Syrian drought — it lasted from 2006-10 — Syria's U.N. food and

ear-armed Iran. Should this be a hard choice? Astonishingly, too many members of Congress seem to think so. Jessica Tuchman Mathews is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. EFTA00651277

more polarised. A growing number want to see the end of the regime; many still cling to it as better than an uncertain alternative, particularly in Damascus. The middle ground has been shrinking. The result has been an apparent stalemate. Protesters gain ground but have yet to cross the crucial threshol

e Islamic Republic's rise, he is more likely to be remembered by historians as the man who hastened its decay. Karim Sadjadpour is an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. EFTA_R1_02033710 EFTA02691537 24 Article 6. Foreign Policy Research Institute Russia's Anxieties About The Arab Rev

w and dramatic proposal for humanitarian aid to all needy Syrians inside Syria. Of course, the latter would require agreement and participation by Damascus. It might also be a good way to lay the groundwork EFTA_R1_00441451 EFTA01964612 for future negotiations. Obama has tried every which way to avo

f aid gets cut off and Egypt says, `We're going to war with Israel,' " said Nathan Brown, a Middle East scholar at George Washington University and the Carnegie Endowment. "Egypt's attitude toward Islamic terrorism — right now, they're on the same page as Fox News." Sure, if aid is suspended gulf states will send mo

versary to its north. The balkanization of the Levant is giving rise to an array of Islamist forces, and Israel can no longer rely on the regime in Damascus to keep Hezbollah in check for its own interests. In trying to sustain its position in Syria and Lebanon, Iran has increased the number of its oper

s. Nathan J. Brown is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington Univeristy and nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. EFTA_R1_00464344 EFTA01977728 Article 2. Foreign Policy How Hamas Won the War Aaron David Miller November 19, 2012

and could simply hide them altogether. If the regime is willing to take the risks associated with moving CW in this manner, it could indicate that Damascus is seriously worried about the prospect of outside intervention. THE MASSACRE As many as 200 people were reportedly massacred in the village of T

between the SCAF and the Muslim Brotherhood that for the foreseeable future they have to share power," says Marina Ottaway, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for EFTA_R1_02209747 EFTA02723619 International Peace. "They have to rule together because there is no other way to do it. They cannot start add

o a lesser extent China. In this camp, there is a will to prevail, a knowledge of the stakes in this cruel contest, and material assistance for the Damascus dictatorship. In the face of the barbarism unleashed on the helpless people of Horns, the Friends of Syria squirm and hope to be delivered from a

of the international community, along with the United States." If the Lieberman-Graham-Casey resolution guides US policy, says George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, that would "preclude" fulfillment of the UN resolutions and isolate the US from the international coalition that backed t