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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

fundamentalist groups in the region to overthrow the Saudi royal family in the 1980s. (The Saudi government is essentially a joint venture between the House of Saud and the Wahhabi establishment, lubricated by vast amounts of Danegeld paid to the propagation of Wahhabi fundamentalist views around the Muslim wor

speaking in Cairo, no less—that "For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East—and we achieved neither." The U.S. was now committed to pushing for change, though not at the expense of sacrificing key American security interest

ed, it would give the U.S. leverage to pursue "tough love" with other American allies, EFTA_R1_00441184 EFTA01964436 including Hosni Mubarak and the House of Saud, to push for reforms in their countries. The 2004 G-8 Sea Island Summit was also, in theory, supposed to lay the foundations for massive new effor

asbah in Tunis and Martyrs' Square in Tripoli will, like the Havels of the Middle East, come to power as politicians. We haven't heard the last of the Middle East's millennial generation. Juan Cole is director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan and the aut

Yemen war on one side, and they can't let Jordan fall. This is a heavy burden, even for them. Iran, say the hawks, can win a war of attrition with the House of Saud. Elsewhere, while Hezbollah may be having problems, and ISIS is ugly, Iran's hawks reason that the best way to help their friends and hurt their e