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s The Daily Beast, "because a bombing will help them put their internal problems aside." Martin, who spent most of his 25-year career at the CIA in the Middle East, argues that some clerics and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders, confronted with a discontented and restless population, are looking for

war might break out—and that the hawks will get their way— has nonetheless become substantial. The U.S. has just withdrawn the last troops from one Middle Eastern country where it fought a highly costly war of choice with a rationale involving weapons of mass destruction. Now we find ourselves on the precipic

s plausible. The Pakistani-Indian conflict may be such a situation. Pakistan's nuclear arsenal may have enabled it to engage in riskier behavior in Kashmir than it otherwise would attempt, because nuclear weapons help to deter Pakistan's ultimate nightmare: an assault by the militarily superior India,

April, 2014 Article'. The Boston Globe Obama focuses updated Cold War approach on Putin Peter Baker Article 2. National Post Vladimir Putin's Middle Eastern harvest Conrad Black Article 3. Ny r America's Last Task in Kabul Vali R. Nasr Article 4. Asharq Al-Awsat Palestinian "Pessoptimism" Bakir Ow

tional Council from the Syrian National Coalition. Many of the more moderate forces (great caution should be used in applying that word anywhere in the Middle East), are now awaiting events, fatigued by ineffective internecine combat. It is hard to figure out who is in the Free Syrian Army, Supreme Military Co

al Asia. China similarly worries that upheaval in Afghanistan could exacerbate Islamic extremism in Xinjiang; India thinks the same could happen in Kashmir. And Shiite Iran almost went to war with the Taliban, an extremist Sunni movement, in 1997; its leaders do not want a repeat of that crisis. Iran i

d with potentially cataclysmic consequences nobody dares imagine. This Friday, the shock came in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad runs one of the Middle East's most repressive regimes. Across the country, protesters have grown ever more emboldened in recent weeks, and on Friday they poured into the street

t Ford referred to in justifying his own decision to pardon Nixon. Otherwise, Mubarak's fate could become just one more chapter in the long saga of Middle Eastern leaders who rise and fall because of the whims of fortune. Nikolas K Gvosdev is the former editor of the National Interest, and a frequent foreign

ond. Its potential for international terrorism is greatly increased by the fact that much of the Pakistani diaspora in Britain comes from Pakistani Kashmir and -- judging from my interviews -- has deep sympathy with the anti-Indian jihadists. Because these people have British passports, they are a dir

tside White House, relief negotiations; Baltimore — Deadly gas explosion; Biden-running mate; George Floyd-body cam videos; Chicago looting; Lebanon; Midwest storms; PGA Championship; Hospitals-therapy dogs. NBC: President Trump — shooting outside White House; Coronavirus- schools; Midwest storms; Biden-

il At Higher Rate Than Wealthy. • Craft Calls For UN To Extend Iran Arms Embargo. • Pakistani Ambassador Not Ruling Out Another War With India Over Kashmir. • Trump Asks WTO To End China's "Developing Nation" Status. • Trump Postpones G7 Summit Until After Election. • WTimes: Biden Likely To Cancel Tr

f Administration. On Fox News' Special Report (11/24, 1.53M), Secretary of State Pompeo said he expects more announcements of normalization between Middle Eastern countries and Israel before the end of the Trump Administration. Pompeo said, "Whether they will come in the next 30 days or 60 days or six months

provided a dossier to some U.N. Security Council members accusing militants from Pakistan of attempting an attack in the disputed Indian territory Kashmir." Pakistan's UN.. Ambassador Munir Akram "accused India of violating international law, the U.N. Charter and Security Council resolutions by sponso

ide White House, relief negotiations; Baltimore - Deadly gas explosion; Biden-running mate; George Floyd-body cam videos; Chicago looting; Lebanon; Midwest storms; PGA Championship; Hospitals-therapy dogs. NBC: President Trump - shooting outside White House; Coronavirus- schools; Midwest storms; Biden-

il At Higher Rate Than Wealthy. • Craft Calls For UN To Extend Iran Arms Embargo. • Pakistani Ambassador Not Ruling Out Another War With India Over Kashmir. • Trump Asks WTO To End China's "Developing Nation" Status. • Trump Postpones G7 Summit Until After Election. • WTimes: Biden Likely To Cancel Tr

ide White House, relief negotiations; Baltimore - Deadly gas explosion; Biden-running mate; George Floyd-body cam videos; Chicago looting; Lebanon; Midwest storms; PGA Championship; Hospitals-therapy dogs. NBC: President Trump - shooting outside White House; Coronavirus- schools; Midwest storms; Biden-

il At Higher Rate Than Wealthy. • Craft Calls For UN To Extend Iran Arms Embargo. • Pakistani Ambassador Not Ruling Out Another War With India Over Kashmir. • Trump Asks WTO To End China's "Developing Nation" Status. • Trump Postpones G7 Summit Until After Election. • WTimes: Biden Likely To Cancel Tr

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that he will pursue an agenda of Hindutva (for example getting a temple erected in Ayodhya, or changing the constitutional status of Muslim-majority Kashmir). Others look for evidence that nationalism of a protectionist variety will have a strong HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031577 --- PAGE BREAK --- influence on Mr