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Article 6. The New-Yorker EFTA_R1_02208988 EFTA02723181 Obama's Brain Gary Marcus Article I. I,os Angeles Times Moving past stalemate in the Middle East Maen Rashid Areikat February 19, 2013 -- With the U.S. administration's foreign policy team shaping up and planned visits by President Obama and

are no democrats in Syria, and foreign intervention could produce either chaos or another dictatorship. While pessimism is prudent in most cases in Middle Eastern politics, it is wrong to let the massacre continue for fear that something worse may follow. There are no democrats in Syria because there has neve

cared. He appointed Holbrooke as his point man only to ensure that he "never received the authority to do diplomacy." Obama's message to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan was: "Ignore my special representative." The White House campaign against Holbrooke was "a theater of the absurd," Nasr writes. "Ho

he White House campaign against Holbrooke was "a theater of the absurd," Nasr writes. "Holbrooke was not included in Obama's videoconferences with Karzai and was cut out of the presidential retinue when Obama went to Afghanistan." The White House seemed "more interested in bringing Holbrooke down tha

Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Devlin Barrett scoop: "Trump had nominated a career Foreign Service officer to ... a key post in a Middle Eastern country with tricky regional relationships, an important U.S. military installation and vast oil reserves. Giuliani, who has said he had held a cy

e AP: "Reuben Panchol was forced to leave war-tom Sudan decades ago as a child, embarking on an odyssey that eventually brought him to the American Midwest and left Page 17773 EFTA00047284 him eternally grateful to the country that took him in. 'I am an American citizen, a North Dakotan,' said Panch

hment writ broadly..." Crocker told interviewers from the government that he felt "a sense of futility": "I was struck by something [then-president Hamid] Karzai said and repeated a number of times during my tenure, which is that the West, led by the U.S., in his clear view, had a significant responsibility

West, led by the U.S., in his clear view, had a significant responsibility to bear for the whole corruption issue," he explained. "I always thought Karzai had a point, that you just cannot put those amounts of money Page 17750 EFTA00047261 into a very fragile state and society, and not have it fuel

Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Devlin Barrett scoop: "Trump had nominated a career Foreign Service officer to ... a key post in a Middle Eastern country with tricky regional relationships, an important U.S. military installation and vast oil reserves. Giuliani, who has said he had held a cyb

AP: "Reuben Panchol was forced to leave war-torn Sudan decades ago as a child, embarking on an odyssey that eventually brought him to the American Midwest and left him eternally grateful to the country that took him in. 'I am an American citizen, a North Dakotan,' said Panchol, a 38-year-old father of

hment writ broadly..." Crocker told interviewers from the government that he felt "a sense of futility": "I was struck by something [then-president Hamid] Karzai said and repeated a number of times during my tenure, which is that the West, led by the U.S., in his clear view, had a significant responsibility

West, led by the U.S., in his clear view, had a significant responsibility to bear for the whole corruption issue," he explained. "I always thought Karzai had a point, that you just cannot put those amounts of money into a very fragile state and society, and not have it fuel corruption. ... You just ca

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

ly support the Taliban's ideological and revolutionary program. Rather, they see the Taliban's fight against the United States and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's administration as a legitimate national resistance struggle, just like the war of the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviets and their Afghan comm

nst the United States and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's administration as a legitimate national resist

ational Peace What Will a Sisi Presidency Bring for Egypt? Foreign Policy Shaped by Donors Michele Dunne NYT U.S. to Reassess Status of Talks on Middle East Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler EFTA00705795 April 4, 2014 -- Rabat, Morocco — With Israel and the Palestinians falling into a familiar cycle

ar in Syria — all of which are competing for the administration's attention. On Saturday, Afghans go to the polls to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai; in three weeks, Mr. Obama flies to Asia to try to revive his strategic shift to that region. "We have a huge agenda," Mr. Kerry said, adding that

he polls to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai; in three weeks, Mr. Obama flies to Asia to try

TShirn o n Post 22 June, 2011 Article 1. Article 2. The Washington Post Avoiding a summer of blood David Ignatius Project Syndicate The Middle East's Slow-Motion Revolution Prince El Hassan bin Talal Article 3. Stratfor Turkey's Inevitable Problems With Neighbors Agence Global A Defiant Asad S

ing neighbors for help. EFTA_R1_02031577 EFTA02690686 3 America's secret contacts with the Taliban have made progress partly because President Hamid Karzai wants them to succeed and, perhaps more important, because India, Pakistan, Russia and China are also supporting the outreach process — with silent

ave made progress partly because President Hamid Karzai wants them to succeed and, perhaps more importan

White House had reservations about Mr. Kerry's approach, according to an aide in the room. "I see a lot of senior officials quoted about Kerry and Middle East peace," the aide quoted Mr. Obama as saying, "but I'm the most senior official, and I have nothing but admiration for how John has handled this."

he polls to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai; in three weeks, Mr. Obama flies to Asia to try

r in Syria — all of which are competing for the administration's attention. On Saturday, Afghans go to the polls to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai; in three weeks, Mr. Obama flies to Asia to try to revive his strategic shift to that region. "We have a huge agenda," Mr. Kerry said, adding that

ce of interests between the two states. Unfortunately at that time, Afghanistan was becoming less important, for the Bush administration, than Iraq. Middle Eastern geopolitics was already more important to deal with than the Afghan issue, which seemed to have been dealt with successfully, at least from an Ameri

ressure on the Northern Alliance during the Bonn Conference. They made sure that their Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara allies would accept the leadership of Hamid Karzai, with whom they did not want to share power at first. On this issue again, the US and Iran were having the same vision: a more centralised Afghanist

supremacists. In fact, as Afghan trade is now very dependent on Iran, to close the Iran- Afghanistan border would be enough to put great pressure on Karzai68. By talking to the neo- Taliban, the Iranians are doing no more than what the Americans, the Pakistanis, and even the Russians69 are already doing,

nday's vote by a landslide, has reason to trumpet its foreign policy accomplishments. Under the "zero problems" policy, Turkey's relations with its Middle Eastern neighbors are better than at any time since the founding of the republic. Regional trade is booming: Turkey's exports to the Middle East more than

ecretary Leon Panetta will remain low-key during this round. He doesn't want to alienate his new Pentagon home or undercut Obama. As for President Karzai of Afghanistan, his course is certain: Scream against large- scale withdrawals. One final piece of the July formula that remains to be developed is

ghbors for help. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030157 --- PAGE BREAK --- 3 America's secret contacts with the Taliban have made progress partly because President Hamid Karzai wants them to succeed and, perhaps more important, because India, Pakistan, Russia and China are also supporting the outreach process - with silent a

have made progress partly because President Hamid Karzai wants them to succeed and, perhaps more important

uld not turn into a summer of blood, if there are diplomatic alternatives. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030159 --- PAGE BREAK --- 5 Article 2. Project Syndicate The Middle East's Slow-Motion Revolution Prince El Hassan bin Talal 2011-06-21 -- AMMAN - There seem to be a thousand and one interpretations of the changes sweeping a